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07/15/2005: Sad, but expected.....
All things considered, I'm surprised this didn't happen ages ago: IBM officially kills OS/2, suggests switch to Linux
BIG BLUE has hammered the final nails into OS/2's coffin. It said that all sales of OS/2 will end on the 23rd of December this year, and support for the pre-emptive multitasking operating system will end on the 31st December 2006.In spite of the fact that my one attempt to migrate to OS/2 (back when it was OS/2 Warp) apparently chewed up my then existing hard drive (my computer died, and I had to buy a new hard drive to get it to work again), I have to confess I am sad to see this happen. Now there's one less OS choice for people out there....
Not bad, it lived 20 years - but no one could ever say it had a peaceful childhood. From the days of OS/2 Presentation Manager through its switch to Warp, the OS was always be-devilled by Microsoft, which seemed to have its own agenda.
It looks like it's gone then, unless OS/2 is a bit like a corpse in an Edgar Allen Poe novel, and it's being buried while it's still alive. And it will wake up screaming in its coffin shouting "Warp! Warp!".
Len on 07.15.05 @ 07:55 AM CST
