[geeks] Messy other stuff

[Ken Hansen]

There are some deeply planted installations of OS/2 in many applications, typically areas like banking and insurance.

I was shocked/amazed the other day at my bank - the teller machine for the drive-up window was an IBM PS/2 Model 70 (a 386 machine, IIRC, if not, a 486 at best).

I was not amazed that the machine was running (they were well designed), but that they were still in use. I wonder if they follow the Dave McGuire model and have a small warehouse full system bought for a few dollars each...

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Harrison [mailto:harrison at timharrison.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:26 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Messy other stuff


"Joshua D. Boyd" wrote:
 
> I noticed that you have a long list of OS/2 copies on your web site.  What
> is that OS up to?  After Warp, I never heard anything else about it.

I haven't really been paying attention.  The moment I discovered running
Solaris and Linux, I forgot about OS/2 (in some ways -- it no longer
became the dominant OS on my machines).  I hear that now it's moved on
to eComStation[1], but IBM was still semi-supporting it last I looked. 
There was a refresh of Warp 4 (no version update) sometime last year.  I
still think OS/2 would have made an excellent open source OS. :)

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Tim Harrison
Network Engineer
harrison at timharrison.com
http://www.networklevel.com/
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