OS/2 facts for kids

OS/2 is an operating system that was originally made by a joint agreement between the Microsoft and IBM companies. The name stands for "Operating System/2". It was intended to replace MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. OS/2 was maintained by IBM until 2006.

IBM discontinued its support for OS/2 on 31 December 2006. Since then, it has been updated, maintained and marketed under the name eComStation. In 2015 it was announced that a new OEM distribution of OS/2 would be released that was to be called ArcaOS.

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  OS/2 1.0 featured a text-mode interface similar to MS-DOS.

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  OS/2 1.1 was the first version to feature the Presentation Manager GUI.

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  Installation Disk A of Microsoft OS/2 1.3 (3½-inch floppy disk)

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  OS/2 1.3 was the final 16-bit only version of OS/2, and the last to be sold by Microsoft.

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  OS/2 2.0 was the first 32-bit release of OS/2, and the first to feature the Workplace Shell.

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  The OS/2 2.0 upgrade box

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  OS/2 Warp Connect 3.0, showing the Windows 3.1 Program Manager, QBASIC in a DOS window, and the LaunchPad (bottom center)

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  Firefox 3.5.4 for OS/2 Warp 4

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  OS/2 Warp 4 desktop after installation

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  ArcaOS is the most recent OS/2-based operating system developed outside of IBM.

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  OS/2 Window (cmd.exe) on Microsoft OS/2 Version 1.3

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  An ATM in Australia revealing during a reboot that it is based on OS/2 Warp

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In Spanish: OS/2 para niños