> Windows NT was "far better" than both, but was out of reach of consumer system for years... Microsoft had a far better developer roadmap with "32 bit protect

> Windows NT was "far better" than both, but was out of reach of consumer system for years... Microsoft had a far better developer roadmap with "32 bit protected mode with just a recompile." They sandwiched OS/2 v2/3 from the bottom and top. When memory prices dropped, the period when OS/2 had a significant hardware cost advantage over NT was rather short.