OS/2 museum opens up

OH HOW the memories come flooding back now we learn an OS/2 museum has opened in Pennsylvania.

Back in 1987 IBM was telling me that, realistically, OS/2 version 1.1 applications would not be available until 1989. It was telling me that OS/2 would be important as we entered the 1990s.

John Thompson, now CEO of Symantec, was even telling me in Las Vegas in 1993 that OS/2 would be important during the 1990s, a full seven years after Microsoft and IBM made a big song and dance about OS/2 during Comdex.

And so what remains? We have a nice clean mug, a nice OS/2 bag, an IBM OS/2 Parker Pen that has run out of ink and we will have Vista soon enough.

If IBM had decided not to enter into a pointless squabble with Microsoft and attempt to convince us all that you needed PS/2 hardware to run OS/2, we might by now have a truly pre-emptive operating system that takes full advantage of the nice X86 processors that are around these days.

Maybe Intel will take up the baton. µ