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pjmlp on April 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most u...

Well it required on the tiny city I was living in the early 90's, where getting OS/2 2.0 meant buying an actual IBM PC instead of a PC compatible.

OS/2 was offered as option instead of IBM PC DOS + Windows.

Actually you just made me search for the model I had as option, the IBM PS/2 Model 35 SLC.

yuhong on April 3, 2017 [–]

Hopefully you noticed that this PS/2 model did not have Microchannel.

pjmlp on April 3, 2017 | [–]

So what?

It was a PS/2 model, even if without MCA and the only way to legally get OS/2 2.0, where I was living.

Getting a PC compatible and a OS/2 2.0 box just to try out if something works wasn't an option.

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