![]() There was speculation at the time that this "IBM emulator" was simply a screen shot of BOCHS with Windows 95 running which someone had tweaked a bit. It was slow and painful to run even on the fastest processors available at the time, but you could install (if you were patient enough) a full copy of Windows 95 on it similar to how you can install Win95 on Virtualbox today. If by some miracle the market react in a different way, maybe the product can revive, but that is not the common path.Īs I recall at around the same time that this so-called "screen shot" turned up, an OS/2 port of the BOCHS 386 emulator turned up around the same time. I had seen that business strategy many times, instead of going to announce the abrupt discontinuation of a software product, they minimize the dev team to only offer support, do not offer any new innovation on the product, offer only bug fixing and patches, and wait until the market just fall off so at that moment they can announce the discontinuation without a bigger impact. ![]() WSfeB, Warp 4.52 and Server 4.52 was only to continue the legacy support and to support a migration path to Java apps. So anyone inside IBM that wanted to do something more aggressive with the OS was stopped. ![]() (remember that at that time there was not Facebook or twitter. While many people was exited about Warp 4 release, some other with internal information knew that OS/2 was not going to get more investment. For what I known (maybe it is just a personal opinion), IBM's Lou Gerstner pulled the plug on OS/2 even before Warp 4 was released.
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