Mandatum (Johnsonverse)

Mandatum is a series of operating systems for personal computers developed by Johnson Technologies. The first Mandatum OS was released in November 1997 as a successor to IBM's OS/2 WARP and a competitor to Microsoft Windows and MacOS.
As of 2022, the most recent version of Mandatum for PCs and tablets is Mandatum 9.
==History==
Mandatum development started in 1996 after Johnson Industries acquired the rights to the failing OS/2 WARP from IBM. OS/2 had failed to compete against Windows, especially the rising Windows NT, and was stuck in third place after Windows and Classic Mac OS. It was decided to reorient OS/2 under a new name and direction. The name "Mandatum" is the Latin word for "command". Due to the “Blitzkrieg Crew” strategies that had worked for railways being successfully applied to software and hardware development, the OS was released in 1997, alongside the first PC of the same name. The earlier Mandatum OSes came with Netscape as the default browser; this was later changed to the open-source Mozilla fork in 1998, then to Firefox starting in 3.0; to this day, Firefox is still the default browser for all versions of Mandatum. Since 2004, Yahoo! has served as the default search engine for Mandatum.
== Architecture ==
=== Compatibility ===
== Release history ==
=== Mandatum (1997) ===
=== Mandatum 2.0 (2000) ===
In June 2000, the second Mandatum PC, Mandatum 2000, was released, boasting additional features such as
=== Mandatum 3.0 (2003) ===
=== Mandatum 4 (2006) ===
=== Mandatum 5 (2009) ===
=== Mandatum 6 (2012) ===
=== Mandatum 7 (2015) ===
=== Mandatum 8 (2018) ===
=== Mandatum 9 (2021) ===
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