Thierry de Coulon composed on 2020-07-18 18:21 (UTC+0200):

> E. Liddell wrote:

>> The punchline there is that OS/2 was written by Microsoft (under contract
>> from IBM).

> But Warp and the Workplace shell were not from Microsoft. KDE 1-2-3 looked to 
> me like they had taken many ideas from OS/2 (and so did I find many features 
> of kicker that reminded of the Warp (ex-smart) center.

> WPS did have some features (like the "shadows") that no one has recreated 
> anywhere.

> I did try eComStation but it did not evolve with time.

That's a matter of opinion: https://www.arcanoae.com/

eCS I still have running 24/7 for my DOS apps. Unless something has changed that I
don't know about, DOS on Linux is incompetent for my needs.
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