A note for the hyjack portion of the thread...

I loved OS/2. I don't think it failed for windows emulation though.

It failed because there wasn't a consumer pricing model. Windows at the time sold to 'people' at about 1/3 the price of 'businesses'. OS/2 was a premium over both and had no 'individual use' discount.

So... Windows ended up in homes. Because of support for games, it stayed in homes. Businesses realized that Windows had a massive self-trained install base, and went with it.

Did you know that Windows NT 3.51 and OS/2 3.0 shared a lot of binaries? You could have NT 3.51 or NT 4.0 address OS/2's HPFS file system through renaming a file called 'pinball' and activating it in the config.

Warp had one of the -best- user interfaces ever. RIP.