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So what exactly is the great stable commercial alternative in the 90s? OS/2 was pretty solid...

• adestefan 8y ago
  The OS/2 part was, the DOS/Win comparability later not so much. Workplace Shell was so cool though.
  • einr 8y ago
    Not sure what was bad about the DOS and Windows compatibility? OS/2 was frequently touted as "better DOS than DOS, better Windows than Windows" and it was generally true. You could multitask DOS apps (lots of people used this for running multi-line BBSes and so forth) and Win16 apps could crash without bringing down the whole system. Of course OS/2 was later severely hampered by its inability to run Win32 apps, but that's another story.