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The fun thing is that OS/2 could have put DR-DOS out of business if MS didn't turn OS/2 2.0 into an entire fiasco.

The way I remember it, I would need to buy an expensive IBM with PS2 architecture to be able to use OS/2 properly, instead of the 386 I got with Windows, so lets not forget that IBM didn't managed the whole situation properly.

That was always a myth, of course.

What was a myth?

Me saving around 500€ on today's money, because I got to use my savings on a no name OEM PC running DR-DOS/Windows 3.1, instead buying an IBM PC with OS/2 2.0?

OS/2 never required a PS/2.

Well it required on the tiny city I was living in the early 90's, where getting OS/2 2.0 meant buying an actual IBM PC instead of a PC compatible.

OS/2 was offered as option instead of IBM PC DOS + Windows.

Actually you just made me search for the model I had as option, the IBM PS/2 Model 35 SLC.

Hopefully you noticed that this PS/2 model did not have Microchannel.

So what?

It was a PS/2 model, even if without MCA and the only way to legally get OS/2 2.0, where I was living.

Getting a PC compatible and a OS/2 2.0 box just to try out if something works wasn't an option.

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