I remember BEGGING my parents to buy me OS/2 2.1 for Windows as my only Christmas present when I was a kid. They'd bought me my own PC (386DX/40, 4MB RAM, etc.

I remember BEGGING my parents to buy me OS/2 2.1 for Windows as my only Christmas present when I was a kid. They'd bought me my own PC (386DX/40, 4MB RAM, etc.) sometime earlier and I was hooked. I wanted to play and experiment with EVERYTHING, and OS/2 looked fascinating. I loved the stability it gave, and the fact that it ran Windows better than Windows! I wish it were open-sourced and modernized to compete in this era (UI, device drivers, virtualization, security, etc.) It's a shame that will never happen.