#BORLAND C++ V2.0 FOR OS/2 WINDOWS#
OS/2 2.0 LA did support Windows applications, but only in a fullscreen session. the ability to run Windows 3.0 applications on the OS/2 Desktop. The major missing feature was seamless Win-OS/2, ie. The LA version looked very much like the GA (General Availability) release but it was clearly unfinished and came with a long README file detailing all the little things that didn’t work yet. Another possible reason for the LA release was the fact that IBM promised its customers to deliver a 32-bit OS/2 in 1991, and IBM usually keeps its promises, one way or another.
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OS/2 2.0 LA was shipped sometime in November 1991-perhaps to annoy Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer who publicly announced that he would eat a floppy disk if IBM managed to release OS/2 2.0 by the end of 1991. This release was, as the name implies, not sold in retail and was only supplied to beta testers and “special” customers. The above screenshot was taken on OS/2 2.0 LA-that’s “Limited Availability”. Kogan, co-author of the excellent The Design of OS/2 textbook. The lead architect of OS/2 2.0 was Michael S. When IBM (alone) was later working on OS/2 1.3, the development of Cruiser was already well underway. The work on 32-bit OS/2-codename Cruiser-started probably sometime in late 1988 when IBM and Microsoft were starting the work on OS/2 1.2, and also roughly at the same time when Microsoft initiated the development of NT, first known as OS/2 NT and released as Windows NT. In fact, 32-bit OS/2 had been promised since the very beginning of the OS/2 era and in his Inside OS/2 (published in 1988), Gordon Letwin clearly outlined the features of “OS/2 – 386”. When IBM released OS/2 version 2.0 in March 1992, it was not entirely unexpected.
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The 32-bit Revolution-the first 32-bit version of OS/2