Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 4th Dec 2001 17:47 UTC
IBM's OS/2 has a great history as a workstation operating system, it was a major alternative OS in the '90s. At its peak time in the mid-'90s OS/2 had about 2 million users but the Windows NT and Windows 95 releases broke its further development. This year Serenity Systems has released a new client version of OS/2. This article will introduce you to what OS/2 is all about. You will learn its history, its user interface, and its power under the hood. The article is also accompanied by a number of screenshots.
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I ran a web/mail/calendar server for a security company on Warp 4 for a year and a half,with NO FIREWALL, and half the kiddies on the planet trying to break into it.
No joy for them. This was one of the earliest OSes to include "SYN flood" defense in the IP stack AS A TOGGLE OPTION. It doesn't get nicer than that.
Though I found EMX to ease the pain of building UNIX apps (and running EMACS), the lack of Win32 support did cause me to inch away from it. Funny how I still wound up running BeOS.
OS/2 was the Right Thing in more ways than I can count. I'm glad to see it continuing one way or another.
--Bob