OS/2 é um sistema operativo de 'deskop' de alta performance e ' high end operating system' feito pela IBM que corre em máquinas Intel Pentium and Intel 80x86.
“Whether you run a large enterprise or a small business, OS/2 Warp Server offers you a strategic network platform, for today and the future. With OS/2 Warp Server, you gain a complete, fully-functional application server, a highly reliable network operating system, a systems management server, backup and recovery services, and more…all in a single, cost-effective solution that’s easy to install and manage. The bottom line? OS/2 Warp Server is an extraordinary feature-rich network operating system.”
Tipo de SO: proprietary
Data de lançamento:
Versão corrente: 4
Pentium, 80486
Número máximo de processadores:
Kernel: proprietary
POSIX: não suporta
Periféricos: “some but not all PC hardware” —Kristian Elof Sørensen
Ficheiros de sistema suportáveis:
- preferred file system: HPFS-2 (NRWF)
- file systems can read/write/format: FAT (DRW), HPFS (NRWF)
- file systems read only and can write through optional software: ISO 9660
- file systems can read/write/format through third party or optional software: HFS (rw), NTFS (r), FAT32 (rw), VFAT (rw), ext2fs (rw), extfs(rw), NFS (rw), TVFS (rw)
Outros sistemas emulados: Windows 3.1 (built-in emulation)
Motor de gráficos: GRADD
“IBM developed a 32-bit GRE (GRaphics Engine) for it's OS/2 2.1. Then sometime when they released OS/2 Warp 4 they released a new “object oriented device driver” called GRADD, which is also 32-bits.” —Pat Jaworski
Operador de interface(gráfico): WorkPlace
