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Re:Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines by LeoPanthera on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:39PM (#23407733)
Wikipedia's OS/2 article is comprehensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2

tl;dr A graphical OS developed by IBM that succeeded DOS and competed with Windows. Notably, it featured pre-emptive multitasking before Windows did. It was not a success in the home market but was reasonably successful in big business, especially finance, for a short amount of time.

Re:Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines by Lammy on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:43PM (#23407783)
And still exists today as ArcaOS!

https://www.arcanoae.com/

Re:Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines by benibela on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:56PM (#23421032)
I have an open source project, where someone decided to compile it on OS/2.

They send me the binaries for OS/2 for every release till 2016

Apparently modern C++ and Qt run there without issues

Re:Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines by projektfu on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @06:43PM (#23409840)
Much better name than eComStation
Re:Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines by skissane on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:47PM (#23408504)
As a tween/teen, I learnt a lot from OS/2. Up until then I had only used DOS and Windows 3.x. And then my Dad bought me a copy of OS/2 2.0, and also the Walnut Creek Hobbes OS/2 CD-ROM. And I discovered EMX (the OS/2 equivalent of Cygwin). And I started playing with bash, EMACS, GCC, etc. Next thing you know, I was installing Slackware Linux. At which point I largely lost interest in OS/2. But EMX was an important stepping-stone for me in getting in to Linux.
Re:Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines by Narishma on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:16PM (#23408119)
I think the first version wasn't graphical.
Re:Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines by LeoPanthera on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:36PM (#23408349)
Actually that's right! The GUI, called "Presentation Manager", debuted with OS/2 1.1.
Re:Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines by kelnos on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @05:41PM (#23409151)
I think it's important to note (even in a tl;dr) that for a time OS/2 was a joint venture between IBM and Microsoft, and that MS sabotaged that relationship while secretly working on WinNT.

On a related note, "Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" is a surprisingly entertaining story, and reads more like a novel than a documentary/memoir.

Re:Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines by WalterGR on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @06:38PM (#23409780)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 :

As a result of a feud between the two companies over how to position OS/2 relative to Microsoft's new Windows 3.1 operating environment, the two companies severed the relationship in 1992 and OS/2 development fell to IBM exclusively.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT :

Windows 3.0 was eventually so successful that Microsoft decided to change the primary application programming interface for the still unreleased NT OS/2 (as it was then known) from an extended OS/2 API to an extended Windows API. This decision caused tension between Microsoft and IBM and the collaboration ultimately fell apart.