I was really hopeful for OS/2 Warp as a mainstream desktop OS when it came out, even though they grossly understated the memory requirements (it really needed 8mb) I think the death knell was ultimately WIN-OS2 which discouraged developers to make 32-bit native software, had this strategy been implemented just a few years earlier, it would have had a chance to saturate in the market.
Once properly installed and running, it was clearly ahead of the curve compared to Win 3.11, or even NT 3.x.
> I was really hopeful for OS/2 Warp as a mainstream desktop OS when it came out
Yes, me too. I evangelised it for a while.
Then I saw NT 3.1 at work. I deployed it in production in 1993.
It was worryingly good, if you could afford the hardware.
Then 2Y later I got a beta of Windows Chicago, before the "Windows 95" name was formalised, and I tried it, and I shut up about OS/2. It was very clearly Game Over.
Once properly installed and running, it was clearly ahead of the curve compared to Win 3.11, or even NT 3.x.