OS/2 2.00 build 6.123
| Build of OS/2 2.0 | |
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| Architecture | x86 |
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| Compiled on | 1991-02-04 |
| About |  |
OS/2 2.00 build 6.123 is the February 1991 beta of OS/2 2.0. On 10 July 2018, Michal Necasek from the OS/2 Museum blog was able to gain a copy of this build and released it shortly after.[1] On the surface, this build is still very similar to IBM OS/2 1.30.2, although it contains a darker color scheme. Internally, the kernel has been ported to the 32-bit protected mode available on the 386 and later x86 processors. Most notably, this allows running multiple DOS boxes, which wasn't possible in OS/2 1.x. This is the last build to include Microsoft copyright notices following the split between IBM and Microsoft's development on OS/2.
The build was first uploaded to a BBS on 22 April 1991, as a set of thirty-one disks. It was uploaded again as a set of ten disks, labeled as Standard Edition on 1 July 1991, and then again on 14 July 1991.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Setup
Boot screen
First boot
Safe to shutdown screen
Floppy disk scans[edit | edit source]
Boot disk (upper left) and disks 1-5
disks 6-9 and driver disks 1-2 (bottom)
Driver disk 3
