Editing Star Trek project (section)

===Within IBM===
Comparing and contrasting with Apple's efforts, [[IBM]] had long since attempted a different strategy to provide the same essential goal of innovating a new software platform upon commodity hardware, while nondestructively preserving existing legacy installations of MS-DOS heritage. However, its strategy was based upon its [[OS/2]] operating system, which had long since achieved seamless [[backward compatibility]] with DOS applications.  In 1992, roughly coinciding with the timeframe of the Star Trek project, IBM devised a new and fundamentally integral subsystem for backward compatibility with [[Windows 3.0]] and [[Windows 3.1]] applications.  This new subsystem for OS/2, called [[Win-OS/2]], was integrated beginning with OS/2 2.0.  Although conceived through different legacy business requirements and cultures, Win-OS/2 was designed with similar software engineering objectives and virtualization techniques as was Star Trek.  Coincidentally, IBM had also code-named its OS/2 releases with ''Star Trek'' themes, and would eventually make such references integral to OS/2's public brand beginning with [[OS/2 Warp]].

Apple and IBM have attempted several proprietary cross-platform collaborations, including the unreleased port of [[QuickTime]] to OS/2, the significant traction of the [[OpenDoc]] [[software framework]], the [[Aim alliance|AIM alliance]], [[Kaleida Labs]], and [[Taligent]].  Both companies have utilized actual personnel from the Star Trek television and movie franchise for promotional purposes.
{{Further|OS/2#TheWarpYears{{!}}OS/2 § 1994–1996: The "Warp" years}}