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By the time OS/2 came out, IBM wasn't a serious competitor for most OEMs -- they were high end, so were mostly competing with the likes of Compaq. The big issu
by cloudsec9 2y ago
By the time OS/2 came out, IBM wasn't a serious competitor for most OEMs -- they were high end, so were mostly competing with the likes of Compaq.
The big issue that no one is mentioning is that OS/2 needed 8MB of RAM to run decently, preferably more, but this was when most machines were 2-4MB and extra RAM was still a big cost.
- invalidname 2y ago100%. I ran it on 4mb and IMHO it was fine but it did need 8mb to shine.
- lproven 2y ago> OS/2 needed 8MB of RAM to run decently, That's OS/2 2. OS/2 1 is the one that flopped, and nobody had 286 computers with 8MB of RAM. Hell, the IBM 286 PS/2 machines shipped with 1MB and they cost $6-7K in '87-'88!