Subj : Re: Mystic on FreeBSD?
To   : g00r00
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Mon Mar 09 2020 12:35 pm

g> If I am not misunderstood pretty much every ATM is (was) powered by OS/2
g> at the time and that was the primary thing keeping it going.
 
Let's limit that to "every ATM in North America".
 
Here in Europe I've seen XP. Automated ticket-machines for trains here also run 
XP. As well as ticket machines for regional public transport.
 
g> I can think of two reasons:
 
g> 1) The ATMs works fine
 
Correct. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. You mentioned it.
 
g> 2) It costs a lot of money to redevelop and redeploy all of those ATM
g> systems all over the world.
 
Again ... North America ...
 
g> I'm not sure how many corporations were using OS/2.
 
I come forth from the telecom-industry and what I saw was that OS/2 was nowhere 
even considered.
 
Little known to many but most in-flight entertainment systems on aircraft run 
on Linux.
 
 \%/@rd

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