OS/2 2.0 & Windows 3.1 Performance Comparison - PC Expo-New York

Thanks to a generous contribution from the one going by BetaCollector, I've acquired more previously lost tapes to share on here! This one is a comparison demo by Lee Reiswig at the PC Expo in NYC during 1992 showing the preemptive multitasking capabilities between IBM OS/2 version 2.0 and Windows 3.1.
Apple did a similar demonstration 11 years later at WWDC 2003 with the part where they compare multimedia sound playback, only they did it with an Intel Xeon workstation running Cubase compared to a PowerMac G5 running Emagic Logic.
More tapes are on the way!
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[@darwiniandude]

Thanks for the upload. Realy enjoyed this. I'll have to search for that emagic / cubase comparison from WWDC 2003, keen to see that :)

[@darwiniandude]

It's 1 hour 48 mins into the 2003 WWDC keynote for anyone else looking :)

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Could of had a sealed copy of O/S2. Was sat on shelf in company I was at in 2007. Had been abandoned. Most likely they'll have bin it after I left. Shame.

[@JouMxyzptlk]

Makes me curious comparing NT 3.51 and the OS/2 version of the same age...

[@richardsequeirateixeira]

OS/2 had /has better DOS support than Windows NT. It was only OS/2 version 1.2 and 1.3 that had minimal DOS support with a lot of compromises.

[@jackal3311]

Very cool video thanks

[@retiredwizard]

I don't think I can drop a link here, but I just posted a rough capture of some of Lee Reiswig's talk from the 1991 PC Expo on my channel. It comes with the animated bonus "How OS/2 Won the West" 😃

[@peachgrush]

It's always essential to have a well prepared demo :)
Actually, Windows 3.x does multitask DOS applications pre-emptively - in contrast to what was said in the video. Probably fiddling with PIF settings would make matters better in the first example. However, I/O-heavy scenario could have attributed to the great lag in the text editor. And Windows 3.11 with 32-bit File Access would be in a much better position.
The second example shows that the Media Player wasn't really the greatest WAV player ;) A good WAV player would set up two large wave buffers and need really very little time to fill them with data. But this one actually properly shows the disadvantages of cooperative multitasking.
Of course, OS/2 has always been much better at multitasking and 16-bit Windows would never be able to challenge it. But Windows wasn't THAT bad :)