OS/2
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It certainly has its downsides, but I think that on the whole, we're better off today than we were in the era when Microsoft was crushing Lotus, OS/2, etc.
From Time • Aug. 27, 2013
DEC's software developers spent around a million dollars to port a desktop publishing product to OS/2, an IBM operating system then being promoted as a Windows alternative.
From Inc • May 21, 2012
Microsoft was the creator of MS-DOS, the software that runs the IBM PC, but the two companies have had a falling out over the next generation, called OS/2, which runs IBM's line of PS/2 computers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although IBM has pledged that the new system will eventually run on a variety of machines, it will initially run only computer programs written for Apple's Macintosh or IBM's OS/2.
From Time Magazine Archive
This term is techspeak under MS-DOS and OS/2, and seems to be generally preferred among micro hobbyists. :beige toaster: /n./
From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.
