Extinct IBM OSs (was: Re: [rescue] Personal Progressions)

[Dave McGuire]

On February 10, Julius Sridhar wrote:
> > > BTW, there were lots of OS/2 TV ads in 1994-5, when Warp 3 was released. But
> >
> > That's the one. Where was the Warp 4 campaign? Warp Server for
> > e-Business? That OS rocked. I doubt it's running at any client sites
> > anywhere at the moment.
> 
> Are you kidding?  It's *all over* the place in the financial industry.
> My younger brother is an executive at HSBC, and he sees it everywhere,
> *worldwide*.  No other PC operating system comes close to the level of
> mainframe integration present in OS/2.

  Indeed, there's an OS/2 machine on every desk at every Bank of America
branch that I've ever been in.  And many ATMs run OS/2.  Now mind you,
I'm not a huge fan of OS/2...but face it, it's all over the place, and
it won't be going away any time soon.

        -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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