• OS/2, IBM ve Microsoft tarafından 1985 yılında geliştirilmeye başlanan grafik arayüze sahip PC işletim sistemidir.
  • Initial versions of OS/2 were developed by both Microsoft and IBM. The “breakup” has happened around 1990 and between Windows 3.0 and OS/2 1.3 release.
  • Microsoft OS/2 2.0 SDK Pre-Release 2, June 1990. In 1990, the strategic PC operating system of Microsoft and IBM was not DOS, not Windows, but OS/2.
  • OS/2 was IBM's answer for a consumer operating system with high end features (versus their enterprise mainframe operating systems).
  • After Microsoft broke up with IBM following the success of Windows 3.0, the latter continued development of OS/2 on its own.
  • Chapter 2. OS/ 2 Warp Display Device Drivers
    • WIN- OS/2 Display Drivers
    • Enabling SVGA in WIN- OS/2 Fullscreen Sessions
  • OS/2 took about 40 minutes to compile on a 2 processor OS/2 2.11 SMP machine (4 P-66’s). IBM would not allow OS/2 internal builds to use the SMP compile.
  • The development of OS/2 began when IBM and Microsoft signed the "Joint Development Agreement" in August 1985.[11][12] It was code-named "CP/DOS" and it...
  • Microsoft leapt at the chance to formalize DOS extenders into DPMI, and use it in Windows, cementing OS/2's 1.x inability to run DPMI programs.
  • "File: IBM OS2 Warp 4 - 9.023 - English - Install CD.zip. Unzip the OS2 zip and mount the CD image and copy the setup images from \DISKIMGS\OS2\35.