OS/2 Users will be getting the Otter Browser, based on Chrome, for that Decades Old Operating System

[TheBlackAdder]

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OS/2 (Operating System/2) is a series of computer operating systems, initially created by Microsoft and IBM under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci.[2] As a result of a feud between the two companies over how to position OS/2 relative to Microsoft's new Windows 3.1 operating environment,[3] the two companies severed the relationship in 1992 and OS/2 development fell to IBM exclusively.[4] The name stands for "Operating System/2", because it was introduced as part of the same generation change release as IBM's "Personal System/2 (PS/2)" line of second-generation personal computers. The first version of OS/2 was released in December 1987 and newer versions were released until December 2001.

OS/2 was intended as a protected-mode successor of PC DOS. Notably, basic system calls were modeled after MS-DOS calls; their names even started with "Dos" and it was possible to create "Family Mode" applications – text mode applications that could work on both systems.[5] Because of this heritage, OS/2 shares similarities with Unix, Xenix, and Windows NT.

IBM discontinued its support for OS/2 on 31 December 2006.[6] Since then, OS/2 has been developed, supported and sold by two different third-party vendors under license from IBM – first by Serenity Systems as eComStation since 2001,[7] and later by Arca Noae LLC as ArcaOS since 2017.[8][9][10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2

Otter Browser aims to bring Chromium to decades-old OS/2 operating system

Every computer needs a capable web browser, but that’s easier said than done on computers running something besides Windows, macOS, or Linux. There are still a few people using the OS/2 operating system, which was created by Microsoft and IBM and ended mainstream development in 2001, and is in desperate need of a functional web browser. With any luck, the decades-old operating system could have the same web engine as modern smartphones.

Roderick Klein, president of the OS/2 Voice community, revealed in an announcement article that a public beta of the new Otter Browser will arrive “in the last week of February or the first week of March.” The browser uses the Chromium engine — the same one that powers Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, and most other browsers that aren’t Firefox or Safari. The interface is written in the cross-platform Qt framework.

OS/2 was the operating system developed jointly by IBM and Microsoft in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with the intended goal of replacing all DOS and Windows-based systems. However, Microsoft decided to focus on Windows after the immense popularity of Windows 3.0 and 3.1, leaving IBM to continue development on its own. IBM eventually stopped working on OS/2 in 2001, but two other companies licensed the operating system to continue where IBM left off — first eComStation, and more recently, ArcaOS.

https://www.xda-developers.com/otter-browser-os2/

Check out the following for more info:
https://www.os2world.com/cms/index.php/past-news/79-news/general/23242-timeline-announcement-for-public-beta-of-new-otter-browser

https://articles.os2voice.org/

Watch out Windows 11.

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