Unfortunately, OS/2 was also ahead of the hardware at the time and its multitasking capabilities could easily tax the limited precious RAM of the day (especiall

Unfortunately, OS/2 was also ahead of the hardware at the time and its multitasking capabilities could easily tax the limited precious RAM of the day (especially where GUI apps were concerned). That led to lots of disk swapping, which sometimes gave it the appearance of slowness rather than serving as evidence of the technical advancement over Windows that it actually was.