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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | OS/2 /O S too/ n. The anointed successor to MS-DOS for Intel 286- and 386-based micros; proof that IBM/Microsoft couldn't get it right the second time, either. Often called `Half-an-OS'. Mentioning it is usually good for a cheap laugh among hackers -- the design was so baroque, and the implementation of 1.x so bad, that 3 years after introduction you could still count the major apps shipping for it on the fingers of two hands -- in unary. The 2.x versions were said to have improved somewhat, and informed hackers rated them superior to Microsoft Windows (an endorsement which, however, could easily be construed as damning with faint praise). In the mid-1990s IBM put OS/2 on life support, refraining from killing it outright purely for internal political reasons; by 1999 the success of Linux had effectively ended any possibility of a renaissance. See monstrosity, cretinous, second-system effect. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
OS2 | English | Operating System /2, "OS/2" | Computer - (IBM, OS) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: OS2 |
| Specialty definitions using "OS2": copy from DOS/OS2/UNIX ♦ DOS/OS2 environment variable ♦ OS/2 ♦ to enter DOS/OS2/UNIX commands. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
os2 | 468 |
os2 warp | 17 |
os2 download | 15 |
os2 driver | 9 |
ibm os2 | 5 |
os2 operating system | 4 |
os2 warp4 | 3 |
office os2 star | 3 |
palm os2 | 3 |
os2 boot disk | 3 |
os2 warp 4 | 2 |
hobbes os2 | 2 |
os2 command | 2 |
cheat os2 | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "2-o-s" | |
-1 letter: os, so. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 53 32 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010011 00110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O S 2 |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0053 0032 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)495320 |
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