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I ran OS/2 1.x (in particular 1.3 was nice) on a 386 clone PC. Later I ran OS/2 2.x on a PS/2 Model 77 and later Windows NT 3.51 > That is why MS had the mone
by karmakaze 4y ago
I ran OS/2 1.x (in particular 1.3 was nice) on a 386 clone PC.
Later I ran OS/2 2.x on a PS/2 Model 77 and later Windows NT 3.51
> That is why MS had the money to headhunt the MICA team from DEC, headed by Dave Cutler, and give them Portable OS/2 to finish. That became OS/2 NT (because it was developed on Intel's i860 RISC chip, codenamed N-Ten.) That became Windows NT.
Good bit of trivia. I remember it starting out as OS/2 v3 and being marketed as Windows New Technology.