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After Microsoft broke up with IBM following the success of [[Windows 3.0]], the latter continued development of OS/2 on its own. [[OS/2 2.0]], released in 1992, introduced support for 32-bit applications, removed almost all Microsoft-written code and introduced a new shell called the Workplace Manager. The new version also included improvements to DOS compatibility, as users were now able to run multiple DOS applications at once via the MVDN (Multiple Virtual DOS Machines). This in turn was used to build Win-OS/2, a subsystem which ran a modified version of Windows 3.0 (later updated to [[Windows 3.1]]) on top of MVDM and provided integration between Windows and OS/2 apps. IBM leveraged this in their marketing campaign, which promoted OS/2 as ''"a better DOS than DOS, a better Windows than Windows"''. | After Microsoft broke up with IBM following the success of [[Windows 3.0]], the latter continued development of OS/2 on its own. [[OS/2 2.0]], released in 1992, introduced support for 32-bit applications, removed almost all Microsoft-written code and introduced a new shell called the Workplace Manager. The new version also included improvements to DOS compatibility, as users were now able to run multiple DOS applications at once via the MVDN (Multiple Virtual DOS Machines). This in turn was used to build Win-OS/2, a subsystem which ran a modified version of Windows 3.0 (later updated to [[Windows 3.1]]) on top of MVDM and provided integration between Windows and OS/2 apps. IBM leveraged this in their marketing campaign, which promoted OS/2 as ''"a better DOS than DOS, a better Windows than Windows"''. | ||
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