Forgotten operating systems 2

So, I decided to tell you about other forgotten guide systems.
OS/2
Year of release: 1985
Combater company: IBM
Microsoft and IBM companies have a very rich history of cooperation, and not everyone now knows that 26 years ago two giants decided to unite and release a new, revolutionary, operating system, which history remembered under the name OS/2. The OS was intended for the new IBM PC AT computers at that time and was designed to overcome the restrictions of the obsolete DOS. At the same time, the creators were going to implement the principles of multitasking in OS/2.

In 1990, Microsoft produces Windows 3 https://sistersitescasino.co.uk/casinos/starspins-casino/ OS.0, which has become a big hit. In just one month it was sold by a circulation exceeding the number of OS/2 copies sold for three years. Seeing that it did not work out with OS/2, Bill Gates decided to stop spending its time on the development of the ”half -axle” and completely concentrate on its own products. Apparently, IBM also did not really have time to engage in an operating system that did not justify hope.

Slowly (for nine years) OS/2 ”crawled” to the 5th version (WARP 4.5, also known as Aurora), after which its active developments by IBM ended. Finally work on OS/2 ceased in 2003.
For some time OS/2 was popular among users of the FIDO network, used on servers and industry. Today it can be found at some enterprises and at ATMs.

IBM WorkPLace OS
Year of release: 1995
Combater company: IBM
The history of operating systems remembers another unsuccessful IBM attempt to release the advanced OS. The ambitious project Workplace OS was born in 1991. The IBM plans were the creation of an unprecedented cross -plate environment in which the user could run software from any operating system – whether OS/2, Windows, DOS, *NIX or even MacOS.
At the heart of the developed system was the micro -yard MACH 3.0 (MK68), developed at the University of Carnegie Mellon and modified by the Open Software Foundation Research Institute Institute. It was planned to launch “subjects” (the so -called “personalities”) on top of the micro -re -OS monitoring other operating systems, which, in turn, allow, in turn, to launch DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows, OS/400, AIX, AIX and so on under WorkPlace OS. There were no boundaries of ambitions of IBM – the company also had the implementation of the work of the new OS on different processor architects, including PowerPC, ARM and X86. As planned, WOS was supposed to work on any computers, whether it is a PDA, a desktop PC or a powerful server.
The Blue Giant dreamed of migrating all his customers (and not only his) on a new platform. In theory, based on Mach WorkPlace OS was to work perfectly with existing PowerPC processors and already available software.
The first designed versions of WorkPLace OS worked with the X86 architecture and included support for the software BSD Unix and DOS. However, the dreams were not destined to come true – the incredible complexity of the task, as well as the poor organization of work on the project, caused the full failure of WorkPlace OS.
IBM threw out more than two billion dollars, the result of the investment was the low -quality operating system, which slowed down even on a powerful gland at that time. Miraculously, in October 1995, the “Babylonian” OS reached commercial sales, at that time support for OS/2 and UNIX applications was built into it. In 1996, even the second version was released, which supported not only PowerPC, but also the X86 and ARM platform.
Low performance, high price, poor implementation of work with a seemingly “native” PowerPC platform and lack of support for Windows and AIX applications made a commercial success of the project simply unattainable. As a result, IBM has stopped all attempts to develop its own OS and moved to the use of Windows and Linux.

Well, I wrote about 2 times about them, if the topic will gain momentum, I will make the 3rd issue, all the prefabrication and good luck)