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===Articles===
===Articles===
;Overviews & introductions
* Cathy Longenberger: ''[[Inside the Next Release of OS/2 Warp]]'' - DevCon News Vol. 11
* Edward Duhe, Rene Gracia, Kathy Hutchison & Tony White: [https://web.archive.org/web/19970131164156/http://pscc.dfw.ibm.com/psmag/nov96/tech/os2-1.htm OS/2 Warp 4: Best on the Planet] - [[Personal Systems Magazine]] Nov/Dec 1996
* Edward Duhe, Rene Gracia, Kathy Hutchison & Tony White: [https://web.archive.org/web/19970131164156/http://pscc.dfw.ibm.com/psmag/nov96/tech/os2-1.htm OS/2 Warp 4: Best on the Planet] - [[Personal Systems Magazine]] Nov/Dec 1996
* Brian Proffit: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2rK8GDDQbTYC&pg=RA1-PA137 OS/2 Warp 4.0] - From [[PC Magazine]] September 1996.
* Brian Proffit: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2rK8GDDQbTYC&pg=RA1-PA137 OS/2 Warp 4.0] - From [[PC Magazine]] September 1996.

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OS/2 Warp Version 4 desktop

The fourth major release of the client version of the OS/2 operating system and also known as Warp 4 or under the original project name Merlin. It is not as radical a change as OS/2 Warp Version 3 was from OS/2 Version 2 mainly because the money earmarked for OS/2 development inside IBM's Personal Systems Division was used to develop the ill-fated OS/2 PPC, and while small portions of the OS/2 PPC code showed up in Merlin, most of the changes were superficial. The release does include a number of additional features that were developed as separate programs though, such as OpenGL support.

Versions

Fixpaks

No. US version Date Build Warp 4 WSOD 1 WSOD 2
0 c XR_M000 9.024 x
1 XR_M001 1997-02-21 9.025 x
2 c XR_M002 1997 9.026 x
3 XR_M003 1997 9.027 x
4 XR_M004 1997-10-07 9.028 x
5 XR_M005 1997-12-07 9.029 x x
6 XR_M006 1998 9.030 x x
7 XR_M007 1998 9.031 x x
8 XR_M008 1998-08-28 9.032 x x
9 XR_M009 1998-11-10 9.033 x x
10 XR_M010 1999-02-26 9.034 x x
11 XR_M011 1999-07-01 9.035 x x x
12 XR_M012 1999-09-29 9.036 x x x

Minor versions

IBM released versions 4.5 for those with a defect support contract and for a time also sold it as an upgrade. This has numerous fixes and updates introduced in OS/2 Warp Server for e-business, and a small number of fixes developed since. The last minor version released was 4.52.

Development Tools

The base operating system contains:

Inside DOS sessions the following tools are available:

Publications

Books

  • Getting to Know OS/2 Warp 4 – Prentice-Hall 1996, ISBN 0-13-842147-1

Articles

Reviews

Links