The long-lost Microsoft OS/2 2 – BNIB, as they say on certain popular online auction sites 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.
. He uncovered a couple of significant bugs, but more impressively, he found workarounds for both, and got both features working fine. The preview release has the Desktop Manager and File Manager UI of OS/2 1.x – and Windows 3.x If we try to put this in historical context, it may help to explain why people are so interested in this. IBM invented the PC, but it didn't develop the machine's OS. Neither did Microsoft: it licensed it in from Seattle Computer Products, as we described in January whenof the PC platform and its operating system.