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OS/2 was more popular than Windows 3.1.
Update: or maybe it wasn't. Seems like different bubbles had different mainstream OS.
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OS/2 more popular, not in my part of Europe, although it had its fan base. there were even OS/2 (Warp) freebie cd-roms at the time. I was quite fond of it, but Win 95 killed it
It certainly wasn't in Europe, plus it required more expensive hardware.
Back in 1992, it would had cost me about an extra 500 euros on today's money.
OS/2 was _incredibly_ rare UI- and UX-wise. Very frustrating to use. As if they copied Windows, but somehow copied only 80% of it with some really common bits missing.
Source? That's sure not the way I remember it. I don't think I ever saw OS/2 outside of in computer stores. I don't think I ever saw a single customer actually using it, either professionally or on a home computer.
Sure, that's anecdote. Do you have data?
Oh man, the good old days. Running Windows apps in OS/2 and having OS/2 run them faster because it was true 32bit.