It was one of the most ambitious computer-product announcements in history. On April 2, 1987, at twin press conferences in New York and Miami, IBM unveiled its plans to reinvent the PC industry, which ...
In the annals of PC history, IBM’s OS/2 represents a road not taken. Developed in the waning days of IBM’s partnership with Microsoft—the same partnership that had given us a decade or so of MS-DOS ...
In context: The early 1990s were tumultuous years for the home computer operating system market. Major corporations were vying for dominance in the emerging GUI-based paradigm, with Microsoft poised ...