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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
The hardware on that PC simply wasn't capable of running OS/2 with a decent speed, it turned out. It took almost 10 to 15 minutes to start an application!
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Sounds like a 1MB DRAM PC. Just enough to boot Presentation Manager.
OS/2 really needed 2MB to run one big app, 4MB to multitask, 8MB to strut its stuff.
And RAM was pricey: there was a $300 differential between the 1MB and 4MB boxes. And another $200 between the OSes. Plus the apps; lots for Windows, including emerging OFFICE, few for OS/2.
It was no contest.
Kludgey Windows 3.11 won in a landslide. It was the XP of the 90's.
The same dynamic was repeated in the short, barely noticed, UNIX vs NT Workstation war.