Facts about OS/2

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   During the late 1980s, OS/2 could multitask up to 32,000 concurrent processes, a capability that surpassed contemporary versions of Windows and Unix systems.

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   OS/2's text-based Presentation Manager API allowed developers to create applications that could run across both graphical and character-mode environments, a flexibility that Windows lacked during the 1990s.

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   The OS/2 operating system achieved approximately 3 to 4 percent of the overall PC market share at its peak around 1995, primarily through adoption by enterprise and financial institutions.

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   eComStation, a commercial successor to OS/2 developed by Serenity Systems starting in 2001, continued receiving updates through 2010 despite IBM's discontinuation of the original operating system in 2006.

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   In 1996, the Lotus SmartSuite productivity application suite achieved 40 percent market share among OS/2 users, making it the platform's most popular native business software.

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   Warp, the graphical shell for OS/2 3.0 released in 1994, introduced the WPS object-oriented desktop interface that influenced modern operating system design.

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   IBM and Microsoft jointly developed OS/2 starting in 1987, but their partnership dissolved in 1990 when Microsoft pivoted to Windows NT instead.

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