Slovenia being a tiny country with a population of just 2 million, IBM OS/2 Warp 4 was one of the few non-Microsoft operating systems to be localized to Slovenian in the mid-90s and a big deal for the local IT community back then. But nearly 3 decades later, when OS/2 disappeared from the last ATMs in the country, the even rarer Slovenian version was as good as completely gone. Or was it?
This is an amazing example of digital archeology, and I hope the other rare OS/2 translations are found as well. It’s difficult for small – but stunningly beautiful! – countries to maintain their digital independence, and properly localised software plays a huge role in that.
No comments so I thought I’d add one anyway. So much effort placed in OS/2 in the 90s for so little gain. It still remains a tragedy in my mind that such a huge effort was made to build an OS in those early days only to shoot itself in the head. In my mind the biggest issue for OS/2 was IBM. I could also say that if it wasn’t for IBM there may not have ever been OS/2 as well…