I actually saw a pretty good YouTube recently about what happened to OS/2. In short IBM treated the OS as an afterthought, and didn’t really invest in marketing. The OS/2 team did a spectacular job with what they were given, but the corporate umbrella didn’t really care, so the market all went the win95 route instead.
I tried OS/2 v3 in the 90’s and it was actually pretty decent.
I had it as a secondary system and it certainly was quite good.
Its compatibility with dos and windows was also quite good. And technically, it was way beyond what Microsoft had. It should have dominated the market.
I actually saw a pretty good YouTube recently about what happened to OS/2. In short IBM treated the OS as an afterthought, and didn’t really invest in marketing. The OS/2 team did a spectacular job with what they were given, but the corporate umbrella didn’t really care, so the market all went the win95 route instead.
I tried OS/2 v3 in the 90’s and it was actually pretty decent.
EDIT: I think this was the one.
I had it as a secondary system and it certainly was quite good.
Its compatibility with dos and windows was also quite good. And technically, it was way beyond what Microsoft had. It should have dominated the market.