IBM OS/2 二十五年

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“OS/2，由IBM和微软合作开发，致力于取代DOS——支撑了当时地球上大多数微型计算机的一个古老的软件。它失败了。相反，微软的Windows 复兴了DOS，进一步加剧了IBM对其所创立的PC标准的控制的终结。二十世纪九十年代中期，IBM放弃了OS/2——该公司从PC产业缓慢撤退之路中重 大的一步；2005年，中国联想收购其PC市场，IBM PC产业之路终结。不过，虽然OS/2从来没有真正登上过舞台， 它也从来没有离开过世界。即使你相信自己从来没觉察过它的存在，到今天为止还相当有可能你在时不时地、不知不觉地接触它。”上次我查看eComStation 是在2007年。

25 years of IBM's OS/2
posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Apr 2012 13:51 UTC
"Co-developed by IBM and Microsoft, it was intended to replace DOS, the aging software that then powered most of the planet's microcomputers. It never did. Instead, Microsoft's Windows reinvigorated DOS, helping to end IBM's control of the PC standard it had created. By the mid-1990s, IBM had given up on OS/2 - a major step in the company's slow-motion retreat from the PC industry, which it completed in 2005 by agreeing to sell its PC division to China's Lenovo. But while OS/2 never truly caught on, it's also never gone away. Even if you believe that you never saw it in action, there's a decent chance that you unwittingly encounter it at least occasionally to this day." The last time I took a look at eComStation was way back in 2007.   

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