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>>>>>... starting with MS DOS, but to each his own.
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>>>>compared to what?
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>>>DR DOS. OS/2 ( I know it started as a join project with MS)
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>>DR DOS was a nice alternative. Not as stable as DOS, but OK.
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>I never had problems running it, the only problem was an incompatibility with Windows that was put in there on purpose by Microsoft, which I got away with by booting with an old MS, installing Windows and then removing DOS and installing DR instead (good old days where it was a simple task).
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>>OS/2 was a steaming pile IMHO. I was thrilled MS got away from IBM on that.
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>I used it for quite a few years, versions 2, 3 and 4 but then I came to Canada and I wanted to buy a computer fast to start finding a job and writing resumes (I always built all my computers up to that moment) so I bought an IBM that came with Windows '98. With Warp 3 I had a friend who was able to run a rendering program (Topaz VGA) while running a BBS server and using the computer all simultaneously, while another friend with Windows (95?) needed to have an extra computer for while rendering with the same program the computer was dead in the water for hours. Oh, and I installed in the same computer (just for fun) Netware Server and Client on top of OS/2 and everything ran without problem as OS was truly multitasking, unlike Windows for the longest time.

I started running NT 3.1 Server when it was first released. Getting drivers for various hardware was a chore, but other than that it ran well and multitasked like a champ (I demo'd a multiuser FPD app to the company brass of my then employer by opening the app about 40 times on the server desktop and editing data and running searches from various instances without missing a beat).

Our NT 3.1 server actually was still running when I came back to visit the company in 2000 (I had left in early '94). I was still logged in to the desktop (since '94) because nobody knew my password or the admin password and the machine had never been shut down over the years. It was still being used as a (small) fileserver.