When the first PowerPC products reached the market in 1993, they were
met with enthusiasm. In addition to Apple, both IBM and the Motorola
Computer Group offered systems built around the processors. Microsoft
released Windows NT 3.51 for the architecture, which was used in
Motorola's PowerPC servers, and Sun Microsystems offered a version of
its Solaris OS. IBM ported its AIX Unix and planned a release of OS/2.
Ultimately, demand for the new architecture on the desktop never truly
materialized. Windows, OS/2 and Sun customers, faced with the lack of
application software for the PowerPC, almost universally ignored the
chip. The PowerPC versions of Solaris, OS/2, and Windows were
discontinued after only a brief period on the market.

IBM OS/2 Warp PowerPC Edition was a port of OS/2 Warp 3 to the PowerPC
Reference Platform (PReP). It was a subsystem (OS/2 personality)
running on the IBM microkernel, which was a refinement of the Carnegie
Mellon University Mach microkernel. It was a first step to Workplace
OS (or WPOS for short) was supposed to be built on top of the Mach
microkernel and support multiple "personalities". The personalities
would implement existing operating systems such as OS/2, AIX, Windows
NT and perhaps even Mac OS. In the end this never happened and the
only supported personality was OS/2.

IBM OS/2 Warp PowerPC Edition was never released as a product and was
only offered to interested IBM customers as CD pack (2 CDs: "OS/2 Warp
(PowerPC Edition) December 1995 Version" and "IBM Applications
Sampler"). It stayed in beta status until cancelation of the OS/2
PowerPC project in 1996.

IBM OS/2 Warp PowerPC Edition had all features of its Intel
counterpart OS/2 Warp 3 (including DOS and Win-OS2 support), but
missing all the networking functionality of the "Connect" versions. It
had a beta version of OpenGL support, which shared code with IBM's AIX
workstation class implementation. Moreover, it had already many
features that showed up later in OS/2 Warp 4 on Intel.

The "IBM Applications Sampler" CD offered some OS/2 software ported
from the Intel version:

> DIRECTORY - COMPANY/OWNER - PROGRAM/PRODUCT
>  \ADEPT - AdeptSoft - AdeptXBBS
>  \APPSMGR - Intelligent Environments - Applications Manager
>  \ARCSOLO - Cheyenne Software - ARCsolo
>  \DEVTECH - Development Technologies - DeskMan/2
>  \DSKOBV - Pinnacle Technology - Desktop Observatory
>  \GRAHAM - WarpSpeed Computers - Graham Utilities
>  \HAVOC - StarDock Systems - Havoc
>  \COMPART - Compart GmbH - Impos/2
>  \RELISH - Sundial Systems - Relish
>  \RHINOCOM - Rhintek - RhinoCom
>  \VIEWER - Aquila Systems - Scientific Image Viewer
>  \VISPROC - Hockware - VisPro/C (x86 cross-compile tool)
>  \WIPEOUT - BocaSoft - WipeOut
>  \XACT - SciLab GmbH - Xact

The 1st download is IBM OS/2 Warp Connect for PowerPC.
The 2nd download is IBM OS/2 Warp for PowerPC - Application Sampler.
The 3rd download is IBM OS/2 Warp for PowerPC with Application Sampler
(December 1995).
The 4rd download is IBM OS/2 Warp for PowerPC, this raw hard disc
image from an installed drive on a 7248-120p. This will boot if write
to any IDE hard disc, so there's no need to get the the rare and
problematic CD-ROM drive needed to boot the OS.

MD5 (IBM_OS-2_Warp_Connect_for_PowerPC.iso_.rar) =
0669efa9411ca4da71d0d4e8a79276a5
MD5 (IBM_OS-2_Warp_for_PowerPC_Application_Sampler.iso_.rar) =
6a080dd471989d7a5f2f3f851deda060
MD5 (IBM_OS2_Warp_3.0_1995-12_PPC.rar) =
965e5f3b5961089995d198cbe5a0aed2

Links:
[OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition][1]
[OS/2 Museum - OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition][2]
[VOICE Newsletter 02/2005 - Whatever Happened to Warp for the
PowerPC?][3]
[IBM PowerPC ThinkPad - History][4]
[OS/2 for the PowerPC: The Development Environment][5]

Compatibility
Architecture: PPC

Installs only install on IBM PowerPC workstations and on Motorola
PowerStack (PowerPC Reference Platform (PReP)).
Note: RS/6000 model 7248-120 - OS/2 only supports IDE hard drives,
also the CDROM drive used to boot the install CD must be a Matsuhita
4X IDE drive.

Compatible IBM PowerPC workstations:
? Desktop:
Personal Computer Power Series 830 (PowerPC 604)
Personal Computer Power Series 850 (PowerPC 604)
? Laptop:
ThinkPad Power Series 820 (PowerPC 603e)
ThinkPad Power Series 850 (PowerPC 603e)
? Server:
System RS/6000 7248-120 43P

  [1]: https://web-docs.gsi.de/~kraemer/COLLECTION/OS2/OS_2_Warp_PowerPC_Edition.html
  [2]: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-warp-powerpc-edition/
  [3]: http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0205H/vnewsf5.htm
  [4]: https://tecnopolis.ca/aixtp/tphistory.html
  [5]: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/OS/2_for_the_PowerPC:_The_Development_Environment

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