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Alan,

Not sure. Perhaps when they formally backed off from desktop support/sales? That was a public concession to Windows I guess. It was obviously coming for a long time, just not with statement-of-direction kinds of announcements. Interesting how they took hold of Linux... hmmm... at about exactly that time.

Up until a year or two ago, ATMs ran somewhere around 95+% OS/2. AFAIK, it wasn't so much a change in IBM OS/2 support that started a switch to Windows ATMs. OS/2 wasn't being significantly enhanced anymore and opinion was growing that the WinNT kernal and follow-ons had finally become stable and reliable enough to go with. Of course, I can't think of a lot of enhancement to be done for OS/2 in an ATM environment (nor the desktop aside from more apps, IMO), but it's not my area.

Tom Liotta

Alan wrote:

Tom, Booth,

What was the hubbub about OS/2 a couple of years back? IBM dropped some level of support for it, which caused a lot of banks to start looking for alternatives. (I saw an OS/2 Warp screen on my bank's ATM once, rebooting during a crazy power on/off see-saw).

- Alan


But what I've been pondering is the thought of IBM getting active with it again. Maybe the time is becoming right to bring focus back to it. It is still for sale from IBM AFAIK. It was the last time I looked.


Not positioned quite like they did back then; in a somewhat different way.





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