Subj : Re: Mystic on FreeBSD?
To   : Don Lowery
From : g00r00
Date : Mon Mar 09 2020 12:49 pm

 DL> Remember thinking when I saw this interview was if so many corporations
 DL> were/are running OS/2-AcraOS with what you/others have run into...just
 DL> wondering why it was never abandoned years ago.

If I am not misunderstood pretty much every ATM is (was) powered by OS/2 at
the time and that was the primary thing keeping it going.  I can think of two
reasons:

1) The ATMs works fine
2) It costs a lot of money to redevelop and redeploy all of those ATM
systems all over the world.

I suspect it was just a matter of "if it aint broke don't fix it" so they can
either spend hundreds of millions of dollars to replace them without really
gaining anything.  Or they can wait for the hardware to die and replace them
with something running Windows or Linux.

I'm not sure how many corporations were using OS/2.  I never saw anyone using
it but I am a little too young I guess to see it in the corporate world.  I
didn't really get to see inside any big companies until the mid 2000s.

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