First post, by davidrg
Turns out IBM OS/2 2.0 turns 30 this month - kind of. There was a Limited Availability release of it in October 1991 but I think that was more a beta level version released to certain customers due to contract obligations. The proper public release was April 1992, six months before Windows 3.1 came out.
Last year I tried out OS/2 2.0 for the first time and was kind of blown away that it was not only older than Windows 3.1 but so much further ahead than it. Its almost a preview of features that would come in Windows 95 - files on the desktop, folder windows instead of a file manager app, browsing the network the same way (that Network icon on the desktop is pretty much Network Neighborhood from Windows 95) and I'm sure loads of other things.
Over all quite a big jump from the previous version, OS/2 1.3 which came out in December 1990 and looks pretty similar to Windows 3.x:
Anyone here use OS/2 2.0 when it came out? Was it good enough to replace DOS and Windows 3.0?