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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
micros; proof that IBM/Microsoft couldn't get it right the second time,
either. Often called &#8216;Half-an-OS&#8217;. Mentioning it is usually
good for a cheap laugh among hackers &#8212; the design was so
<a href="../B/baroque.html"><i class="glossterm">baroque</i></a>, and the implementation of 1.x so bad, that
three years after introduction you could still count the major
<a href="../A/app.html"><i class="glossterm">app</i></a>s shipping for it on the fingers of two hands
&#8212; in unary. The 2.x versions were said to have improved somewhat,
and informed hackers rated them superior to Microsoft Windows (an
endorsement which, however, could easily be construed as damning with faint
praise). In the mid-1990s IBM put OS/2 on life support, refraining from
killing it outright purely for internal political reasons; by 1999 the
success of <a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> had effectively ended any
possibility of a renaissance. See <a href="../M/monstrosity.html"><i class="glossterm">monstrosity</i></a>,
<a href="../C/cretinous.html"><i class="glossterm">cretinous</i></a>, <a href="../S/second-system-effect.html"><i class="glossterm">second-system
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>