Subj : Mystic on FreeBSD?
To   : g00r00
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Mon Mar 09 2020 03:49 am

Hello g00r00!

09 Mar 20 12:49, you wrote to Don Lowery:

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

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

You are correct that ATMs were big users of OS/2.

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

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

The US Postal Service and the old Grossman's home improvement chain in the 
Northeast US are 2 examples I've seen.

Andrew

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