>Seems like it was sometime around 1996 when the last version of OS2 hit the market. Or was that the garbage can? There were two versions Red and Blue and it was being demonstrated by IBM at Fry’s in Campbell, California on a Saturday afternoon. I was very impressed!
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>As the new week began IBM announced it had a new president. The new president made an announcement, “We will no longer support OS2”! Wow! Introduced and killed in the same week! Nice marketing plan – so I stayed away.

There are some big "automation" (real time data collection/scaling/and send)packages in the petro chemical industry that rely on OS2. SAAB is one of them. They run 24/7 and are a big part of plant safety. I guess they don't really need support:-). No profit in reliability!

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>>>>Now, OS2, that was an AWESOME product, but it was not a success. Too bad for all of us.
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>>>Yes, that really is too bad. It was comprehensive and consistent in the way it treated "objects" and also was a TRUE pre-emptive multitasking system (not just a time-slicer like Windows is).
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>>It was an Awesome OS. That baby didn't bat an eye when it came to multitasking (a friend of mine ran a BBS here in Greensboro with it, 24/7). Windows.... time-slicing with disk-thrashing.. a wonderful way to waste the day.... sigh.
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>>And how much memory did it require? Wasn't it like 16 or 32 Megs to run it effectively? This was back in 1993??
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>>But it was what the people wanted!!! sigh again........
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>>And the idiots running IBM didn't know how to market. They had a killer app and let it fizzle on the vine while MS kicked them a new one.
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>>Tommy