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Name: Stew
Date: July 11, 2002 at 12:18:21 Pacific
Subject: what is OS/2
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Hi all,
I dont mean to sound thick, But can someone please explain to me what 0s/2 is or direct me to a site that can.
If it is an operating system, what are the benefits? Can it be installed onto a normal pc?
I would like to learn more about this.

Thanks

Stew


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Response Number 1
Name: Hmmm
Date: July 11, 2002 at 23:36:54 Pacific
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Here you go-http://pages.prodigy.net/michaln/history/timeline.html


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Response Number 2
Name: Luc
Date: July 18, 2002 at 09:49:13 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

OS/2 is a operating system based on the intel architecture. The producer from this system is IBM. The official web page is www.software.ibm.com/os/warp. It exist for this operating system office software, web browsers, utilities and so on.
OS/2 has a workplace shell similar Windows 2000. The newest OS/2 version has the name Convenience Package (version 4.52). You can start with this OS/2 applications, DOS applications, Windows 3.x applications and Java applications. If you install the odin-api you can also use Win32 applications (but not all).
Regards Luc


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