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[Old 1997 story] The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was
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I honestly thought this was going to be about os2
I was expecting Copland (what would have been Mac OS 8, had the project survived).
Gosh my dad ran that in the early 90s. Was that Linux? He was then and still is a Microsoft person.
I think it was an IBM/MS OS. Forget if it was desktop, server or "other" though.
Edit: that's right, it was IBM hoping to privatize the OS on a hard-to-clone PC (PS/2) when they saw their market share eroding quickly. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/half-an-operating-system-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-os2/
Wow, big memory trip! It was os/2 warp, I saw that package and knew it!
Dad worked for IBM in the 70s, no surprise. I also remember him having an OS box with a penguin on it but I don't believe he ever installed it. ~95ish.