I was reading this on /. and it discusses how OS/2 would have become the predominant OS if Windows 3.0 programs hadn't been able to run in protected mode... here's the blurb from /. :

covertbadger writes "Larry Osterman said farewell yesterday to David Weise, the developer he credits with getting applications to run in protected mode on Windows 3.0, which led directly to Microsoft choosing to push Windows instead of OS/2. Today he speculates on what the IT world would be like if Weise had never completed this work. Windows 95 would never have existed, OS/2 would be the de facto standard, and IBM would never have put weight behind Linux because it had its own operating system to push."

Url: http://weblogs.asp.net/larryosterman/archive/2005/02/03/366493.aspx

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