Memories of OS/2
OSNews reports that OS/2 is 20 years old today. Wow, that makes me feel ooooold. My first experience with OS/2 was the 2.0 version (I think) around the end of highschool. According to Wikipedia 2.0 was released in 1992, so that's about right. I think I remember going with Fred to go over to someone's house to copy it even (lots of floppy disks). I do know that dad got mad at me for creating several levels of boot menus in our computer (a 386DX-30) that had had to navigate through just to get to anything. The menus of course would change on an almost daily basis as I played around.
The first "real" version of OS/2 was 3.0, or Warp, released in 1994, just before Windows 95. At that time I wasn't a Microsoft hater, but I could see the marketing hype. And OS/2 was cool, it could crash and still recover easily (not even affecting a modem download!), ran windows 3.x apps, had lots of cool free downloads, had a really neat "feeling" shell.
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