> The cool thing about OS/2 2.1 was that you could easily boot off of a single 1.44 Mb floppy disk, and run multitasking operations, without the need for the GUI.

It was cool, but don’t forget that you could do the same thing with MP/M on an 8-bit machine in late 1979.

Even Microsoft developed a similar operating system a year later, but never released it. The code name was M-DOS, or MIDAS, depending who you ask.