- OS/2, IBM ve Microsoft tarafından 1985 yılında geliştirilmeye başlanan grafik arayüze sahip PC işletim sistemidir.
- OS/2 1.0 was announced in April 1987 and released in December. The original release is textmode-only, and a GUI was introduced with OS/2 1.1 about a year later.
- 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.
- After Microsoft broke up with IBM following the success of Windows 3.0, the latter continued development of OS/2 on its own.
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- OS/2 was IBM's answer for a consumer operating system with high end features (versus their enterprise mainframe operating systems).
- The work on 32-bit OS/2 - codename Cruiser - started probably sometime in l988 when IBM and Microsoft were on another front busily hacking at OS/2 1.2.
- 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.
- It is also assumed that you are familiar with the 80286 architecture. This book contains six chapters that describe the OS/2 Application Programming Interface (API)...