[chiph]

> OS/2 was merged into Windows NT

Sortof yes, sortof no. Microsoft's relationship with IBM was damaged by this point, and they had hired Dave Cutler to start work on NT in 1988 (the breakup happened in 1990). There were stories about Microsoft starting newly hired engineers on the OS/2 program to get them up to speed on 32-bit event-driven programming, then moving them to NT after IBM effectively paid for their training.

You needed an i486 DX2 with at least 8mb and 120mb drive to run OS/2 effectively. This was a high-spec machine back then - not cheap.

I still have my OS/2 Warp t-shirt somewhere in the back of the closet...

[ldiracdelta]

During my education at the University of Washington, one of the lecturers was on the Microsoft side of the OS/2 development. He said that the relationship drastically soured when some IBM supplied code got passed around with comments by Microsoft employees just mercilessly ripping the IBM code apart. And then it got back to IBM..