OS/2 bitmap family

File Format
Name	OS/2 bitmap family
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics OS/2 bitmap family
Extension(s)	.bmp
PRONOM	x-fmt/270

IBM OS/2 used a different BMP file format than Microsoft Windows, so that the two formats are not interchangeable. See BMP for Windows Bitmap.

Resources

• OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming Reference Guide, Vol III [1]
• OS/2 Bitmap File Format Summary From Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats at FileFormat.Info (1996)
• Wikipedia page on the BMP file format has some info related to OS/2