From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

You just described OS/2 1.2 -> 1.3, and 2.1 -> Warp

1.3 was handily the most well received of the 1.x bunch - indeed MS was
eventually forced to release their own version of it after they'd planned
on staying at 1.2 for the 1.x endgame.   In user terms not a
whole lot changed.  Adobe fonts showed up and a few more printer drivers
and such, but the main attraction of 1.3 was that is was visibly faster and
didn't grow swap files as fast.

Aside from the public marketing and modest success of Warp, what sold it
into the corps was its leaner performance on their installed hardware base
(in a non-constrained environment, Warp would actually benchmark a tad
slower than 2.1)

A W2K that had some serious swap tuning work done to cut down slow laptop
drive accesses could have a lot of appeal in certain quarters.  XP is
obviously the wrong answer for most laptops

"Geo."  wrote in message
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> What would you pay for W2K refresh that made W2K run 25% faster?

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