Maybe this is something most OS/2 users would rather not remember, but if it weren't for OS/2, we wouldn't have Windows NT or its spawn either. When Microsoft and IBM divorced, IBM got to keep the Windows 3.1 code (which it altered and put in OS/2 for the "a better Windows than Windows" effect), and MicroSoft got to keep the OS/2 1.x code, including 1.3, which was basically an IBM rewrite of Microsoft's poorly performing 1.2, and which was the basis for NT. In fact, the NT name had been considered by IBM before they decided on OS/2.
If you're running a Windows NT variant, look in the registry and you'll even find the "OS/2 Subsystem for NT", and an OS2LibPath key.
Which begs the question: Has Microsoft ever actually written an operating system? I think they wrote WinCE from scratch.
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Maybe this is something most OS/2 users would rather not remember, but if it weren't for OS/2, we wouldn't have Windows NT or its spawn either. When Microsoft and IBM divorced, IBM got to keep the Windows 3.1 code (which it altered and put in OS/2 for the "a better Windows than Windows" effect), and MicroSoft got to keep the OS/2 1.x code, including 1.3, which was basically an IBM rewrite of Microsoft's poorly performing 1.2, and which was the basis for NT. In fact, the NT name had been considered by IBM before they decided on OS/2.
If you're running a Windows NT variant, look in the registry and you'll even find the "OS/2 Subsystem for NT", and an OS2LibPath key.
Which begs the question: Has Microsoft ever actually written an operating system? I think they wrote WinCE from scratch.