On: Gordon Letwin OS/2 Usenet post (1995)

[cloudsec9]

By the time OS/2 came out, IBM wasn't a serious competitor for most OEMs -- they were high end, so were mostly competing with the likes of Compaq.

The big issue that no one is mentioning is that OS/2 needed 8MB of RAM to run decently, preferably more, but this was when most machines were 2-4MB and extra RAM was still a big cost.

[lproven → cloudsec9]

> OS/2 needed 8MB of RAM to run decently,

That's OS/2 2.

OS/2 1 is the one that flopped, and nobody had 286 computers with 8MB of RAM.

Hell, the IBM 286 PS/2 machines shipped with 1MB and they cost $6-7K in '87-'88!

[invalidname → cloudsec9]

100%. I ran it on 4mb and IMHO it was fine but it did need 8mb to shine.