1993 OS/2 vs NT Shootout Part 2

From the Demonstration of NT 3.1 to the demonstration of OS/2 2.1.

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[jasonscottpage]

OS/2 NT Shootout '93 (unedited)

This is the unedited version which never made it to the public. The public version only included the OS/2 section. Microsoft was too embarrassed with the comparison that they asked the organization to cut their act out for public copy.

[Lam1ngton]

If Windows NT v OS/2 back in the 90's boiled down to a competition between these two guys we'd all be using OS/2 today :P

[sala91]

I want that NT backgaund! :D

[RyogaXvX]

@jasonscottpage

BUT

What became of the NT kernel 20 years later? ;]

[semco72057]

@Lam1ngton Many are still using it in the form of eComstation which is still supported with IBM drivers and OS/2 operating system. Serenity Systems just changed the GUI, and added applications to run on the OS.

[semco72057]

@bobdole57 So true. They would have had to use a Linux base like Apple did.

[semco72057]

@richardbirch2007 Yes they did. If they had not been a partner with IBM Windows NT would never have been. Everyone would still be buying OS' like Windows 98 and having their system still crash.

[dallase1]

NOT TRUE.

I saw this at my OS/2 User Group becaue I remember the Horse Mouse Pointer.

[bobdole57]

In a sick and somewhat perverted way, Windows NT/XP/Vista/7 IS OS/2.

If it wasn't for IBM and Microsoft's OS/2 partnership, Windows as we know it today would not exist.

[richardbirch2007]

Microsoft just 'borrowed' all of the features of OS/2 while IBM failed to market OS/2 properly.

[inzMBL]

Where is it now?

Ask the clone makers, and ask yourself how much more money Microshit had. Thank God Apple didn't fall in 1997.

[gregtamnel0576]

So MacOS split the difference?

[adacosta38]

Interesting, I watching this on Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64 bit, where is OS/2 now?