Benj Edwards reports via Ars Technica: In a move that marks the end of an era, New Mexico State University (NMSU) recently announced that the Hobbs OS/2 Archive will close on April 15, 2024. For more than 30 years, this archive has been an important resource for our users. The IBM OS/2 operating system and its successors were once fierce competitors to Microsoft Windows. “We have made the difficult decision not to host these files at hobbes.nmsu.edu,” NMSU representatives said in a statement to The Register. “We cannot go into details, but our priorities We had to evaluate our priorities and made the difficult decision to discontinue the service.”
Hobbes is sponsored by the School of Information and Communication Technology at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In an official announcement, the site reads, “After many years of service, hobbes.nmsu.edu is being retired and is no longer available. As of April 15, 2024, this site will no longer exist.” Masu. The earliest record of Hobbs' archive that we have found online is his 1992 Walnut Creek CD-ROM collection, which assembled the contents of the archive for offline distribution. Hobbes' age is at least about 32 years old, making him one of the oldest software archives on the Internet, similar to the University of Michigan archives and his UNC ibiblio.
