I agree DOS/Windows wasn't anything to look forward to running. It was only good for FreeCell or selling software for. I did have a Windows laptop that dial-up

I agree DOS/Windows wasn't anything to look forward to running. It was only good for FreeCell or selling software for. I did have a Windows laptop that dial-up connected to the Internet via Winsock.dll though, so that was cool. I was running OS/2 1.2 and 1.3 in 1988-89 and beta versions before that. It only let you run a single DOS box but you could run any number of protected mode OS/2 text and Presentation Manager (PM) GUI programs. These were of the 16-bit (near/far) segmented memory model. In 1992, OS/2 2.0 ran the 32-bit flat mode and multiple DOS boxes in windowed areas of the desktop, as well as Win16 programs. The company also had developed their software for IBM mainframes, Wang minis, VAX, AIX, HP-UX, and DEC Alpha. Of all of these OS/2 and Windows NT were the most interesting to me as they seemed close to consumer platforms. The experimental NeXT target we dabbled with but never ported to. That was the future that we had to wait many years to be popularized by Apple. Interface Builder seemed so much better than XCode though. DOS4GW was the flavour that came free with the Watcom compilers. It was very popular with DOS games that let you use the available hardware to the maximum capabilities.