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The third major release of the OS/2 operating system and better known under the original project name OS/2 Warp or Warp 3 or even just plain "Warp", it was the best selling of the OS/2 variations and represented the peak of the system's popularity.

Versions

IBM OS/2 Warp 3 family products:

Oct 1994: OS/2 Warp Version 3 (for Windows) - red box
Jan 1995: OS/2 Warp Version 3 (with Win-OS/2) - blue box
OS/2 Warp Connect (for Windows) - red box
OS/2 Warp Connect (with Win-OS/2) - blue box
OS/2 Warp Server Version 4
OS/2 Warp Server Version 4 Advanced
OS/2 Warp Server Version 4 Advanced SMP

Fixpaks

Later fixpaks also introduced new features to the Base Operating System component.

Publications

Local Articles

Reviews

René Meyer: Angeschaut: OS/2 Warp Version 3, Funkamateur (Germany), Volume 44, Issue 2, 1995, pages 140 to 143.

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 The third major release of the OS/2 operating system and better known under the original project name '''OS/2 Warp''' or '''Warp 3''' or even just plain "Warp", it was the best selling of the OS/2 variations and represented the peak of the system's popularity.
-====Minor versions====
+===Versions===
-Unlike almost all other OS/2 versions the Version 3 system has no official minor versions, however they are sometimes counted by fixpacks, so Warp 3 with Fixpack 6 becomes "OS/2 3.06" and with Fixpack 32 becomes "OS/2 3.32" and so on, so forth.
+IBM OS/2 Warp 3 family products:
+* Oct 1994: OS/2 Warp Version 3 (for Windows) - red box
+* Jan 1995: OS/2 Warp Version 3 (with Win-OS/2) - blue box
+* OS/2 Warp Connect (for Windows) - red box
+* OS/2 Warp Connect (with Win-OS/2) - blue box
+* OS/2 Warp Server Version 4
+* OS/2 Warp Server Version 4 Advanced
+* OS/2 Warp Server Version 4 Advanced SMP
+===Fixpaks===
+Later fixpaks also introduced new features to the Base Operating System component.
 ==Publications==