IBM Products That Used OS/2
IBM used OS/2 in a wide variety of hardware products, effectively as a form of embedded operating system. Examples of products that used OS/2 include:
| Product | Nature of Product | How was OS/2 used? |
|---|---|---|
| IBM 3494 | Tape Library | Used as the operating system for the Library Manager (LM) that controlled the tape accessor (robot) |
| IBM 3745 | Communications Controller | Used as the operating system for the Service Processor (SP) and if installed, the Network Node Processor (NNP). |
| IBM 3890 | Document Processor | The 3890/XP1 was announced November 12, 1988. It initially used OS/2 1.1 Extended Edition on a PS/2 Model 80 to emulate the stacker control software that previously ran on a System 360. IBM later switched to OS/2 Warp. |
| IBM 473x | ATM | Used in a range of Automatic Teller Machines manufactured by IBM. Was also used in a later 478x ATMs manufactured with Diebold. |
| IBM 9672 | Mainframe | Used as the operating system for the Support Element (SE). Was also used in later mainframe models such as the IBM 2064. |
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