Rod Barnhart

Rod Barnhart is the Network Administrator for a small non-profit in Ohio. A geek to the core, he has been a longtime Linux user and writes, mostly about technology, both here and on his own blog at Nitemare Cafe.

April 9 BY in Technology

Happy (Belated) Birthday OS/2: A Multitasking Pioneer

69 Shares As pointed out on Slashdot, IBM’s OS/2 turned 25 last Monday. As a long-time computer user, and not a fan of Windows, I do have some experience with the operating system. Unfortunately, I was pretty much anti-GUI for the longest time, so I missed out on OS/2 up until Warp 3.0. By then, the operating system had matured a great deal, and, had IBM done better marketing (it didn’t help that Windows was installed on PCs, including most of their own hardware), the computing world may be much different than it is... More »