Long-Lost Microsoft OS/2 2 Discovered and Run on Modern PCs

The long-lost Microsoft OS/2 2 – BNIB, as they say on certain popular online auction sites (click to enlarge)reader Brian Ledbetter bought it, opened the still-sealed box, imaged the disks, and even managed to install it and take a few screenshots. Now, two of the internet's experts in getting early PC operating systems running today have managed to fire it up, and you can see the results.Arca Noae is modernizing OS/2 Warp for 21st century PCsnearly went.

This SDK came out in June 1990, just one month after Windows 3.0. If 32-bit OS/2 had launched as planned, Windows 3 would have been the last version before it was absorbed into OS/2 and disappeared. There would never have been any 32-bit versions: no Windows NT, no Windows 95; no Explorer, no Start menu or taskbars. That, in turn, might well have killed off Apple as well. No iPod, no iPhone, no fondleslabs. Twenty-first century computers would be unimaginably different. The surprise here is that we can see a glimpse of this world that never happened. The discovery of this pre-release OS shows how very nearly ready it was in 199

Microsoft OS/2 2 PC Operating Systems Modernize 1990 Windows 3.0 32-Bit Apple Computers

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