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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>OS/2</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../O.html" title="O"/><link rel="previous" href="OS.html" title="OS"/><link rel="next" href="OSS.html" title="OSS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">OS/2</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="OS.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">O</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="OSS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="OS-2"/><dt xmlns="" id="OS-2"><b>OS/2</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/O S too/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The anointed successor to MS-DOS for Intel 286- and 386-based
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micros; proof that IBM/Microsoft couldn't get it right the second time,
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either. Often called ‘Half-an-OS’. Mentioning it is usually
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good for a cheap laugh among hackers — the design was so
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<a href="../B/baroque.html"><i class="glossterm">baroque</i></a>, and the implementation of 1.x so bad, that
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three years after introduction you could still count the major
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<a href="../A/app.html"><i class="glossterm">app</i></a>s shipping for it on the fingers of two hands
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— in unary. The 2.x versions were said to have improved somewhat,
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and informed hackers rated them superior to Microsoft Windows (an
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endorsement which, however, could easily be construed as damning with faint
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praise). In the mid-1990s IBM put OS/2 on life support, refraining from
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killing it outright purely for internal political reasons; by 1999 the
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success of <a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> had effectively ended any
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possibility of a renaissance. See <a href="../M/monstrosity.html"><i class="glossterm">monstrosity</i></a>,
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<a href="../C/cretinous.html"><i class="glossterm">cretinous</i></a>, <a href="../S/second-system-effect.html"><i class="glossterm">second-system
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effect</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="OS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../O.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="OSS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">OS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> OSS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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