Twenty-five years ago this month, on April 2, IBM announced its new PS/2 computers and a new multitasking operating system to run on (most of) them–OS/2. They even lured a bunch of the actors from M*A*S*H to do an ad campaign for them. It didn’t seem like it at the time, but that was the [...]
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Happy late birthday, OS/2
by Dave Farquhar on April 15, 2012
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