![]() There appeared to be some consensus that the last official version was OS/2 Warp 4.52, which according to Wikipedia was released in 2001, though Serenity Systems reportedly still has major customers around the world using it under the eComStation label. Apparently IBM wasn’t especially uptight about preventing people from sharing its old operating system (OS). (“Win” was short for the Windows key, near the bottom left corner of a typical Windows-compatible keyboard.)Ī search revealed that a number of sites seemed to be offering OS/2 for download. Where the commands require a DOS-like command line, a convenient way of opening an elevated command window (i.e., having full administrator privileges) was Win-R > cmd > Ctrl-Shift-Enter. ![]() This post describes the steps I took to achieve that, and the results I obtained. It was also possible that, on rare occasions, I would appreciate OS/2’s potential backward compatibility with DOS programs from the 1980s.Įventually I realized that I might be able to resurrect OS/2 in a VM. I had long held some idle curiosity about what it would be like to see my old OS/2 installation from the 1990s. As detailed in another post, I was using VirtualBox to run virtual machines (VMs) in Windows 10 Pro 圆4 1903.
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