Re: [PCTECH]OS/2 (was HANG time...)

[Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.