On: Gordon Letwin OS/2 Usenet post (1995)

[lproven]

> OS/2 needed 8MB of RAM to run decently,

That's OS/2 2.

OS/2 1 is the one that flopped, and nobody had 286 computers with 8MB of RAM.

Hell, the IBM 286 PS/2 machines shipped with 1MB and they cost $6-7K in '87-'88!