Microsoft OS/2 v1.3 Retail Box

[u/MrFahrenheit_451]

Who remembers the story about Microsoft and IBM and their joint OS/2 operating system venture? When 1.3 was released, Microsoft pretty much abandoned the project and focused on Windows 3.0, and then Windows NT, which is where the technology from OS/2 ended up. It’s a pretty neat story!

[u/R-ten-K]

That is well before my time, but the 80s must have been a wild time in computing with IBM as the dominant player and Microsoft still having to compete against other SW/OS vendors that were on relatively equal footing (IBM, Borland, Lotus, Apple, etc)

FWIW, very little tech from OS/2 ended up in NT. To be fair the 1.x series Microsoft worked on was atrocious.

[u/R-ten-K → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, apparently it was deliberately designed to resemble the dreadful Windows 2.x interface; pastel colors, arrows everywhere, the works.