Ran OS/2 on a 486DX/66 with a VLbus Cirrus Logic card. 8MB of RAM. I could run X-wing in DOS and have a download going in the background from an BBS and have my FidoNET client running...etc. I could run Word in a Windows session and have another Windows session running another application and when that application crashed windows it did not crash my others Windows session. I could name things "This is my paper on some dumb stuff the prof wanted me to write about.txt" and save it to the file system. OS/2 was pretty cool. It pretty much also ran every ATM and PBX you interacted with up until the early 2000s.
It was better then Windows in every way except the fact that it as being sold and marketed by IBM. MS wrote the early code for it and it was going to be the next thing after Windows 3 but then they did NT.
It was better then Windows in every way except the fact that it as being sold and marketed by IBM. MS wrote the early code for it and it was going to be the next thing after Windows 3 but then they did NT.