Here are four very good links for the history of IBM's OS/2 1) http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/os2history.html
2) http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/os2warp.html 3) http://pages.prodigy.net/michaln/history/timeline.html 4) http://www.os2world.com/content/view/15847/1/ On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Mark Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > The guys were talking about it but I couldn't remember if it was part of > a meeting or not. I am not really into it, either. I just thought that > my internet search was giving me misleading information. > > But thank you for satisfying my curiosity. I thought that it was > something completely different, that it was designed to be a replacement > for Windows by the computer manufacturers. > > Mark > > > > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 19:59 -0400, Sean Dague wrote: > > On 07/28/2010 07:53 PM, Mark Wallace wrote: > > > I did a google search but am concerned that the information about OS2 > is > > > either dated or slanted. > > > > > > Search results revealed the following. Somebody please comment on the > > > accuracy. > > > > > > OS2 is not totally open source because some of the code that it uses is > > > Microsoft proprietary code. Although something called OSFree is being > > > developed, it is not ready for prime time. That means that it is not > > > GPL. > > > > OS/2 isn't open source, or linux, and is also finally no longer > > supported by IBM, so probably way too off topic for this group / list. > > > > It might make a good dinner time discussion if you are there next week. > > > > -Sean > > > > -- > Robert Mark Wallace > 60 Delaware Road > Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 > Telephone: (845) 566-0586 > > Visit my Blog, Mark Wallace Following Christ, at > > > > http://markwallacefollowingchrist.blogspot.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Aug 4 - Samba > Sep 1 - BOINC > Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions >
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