Subj : Re: Mystic on FreeBSD?
To   : g00r00
From : Don Lowery
Date : Mon Mar 09 2020 10:11 pm

 g0> If I am not misunderstood pretty much every ATM is (was) powered by OS/2
 g0> at the time and that was the primary thing keeping it going.  I can
 g0> think of two reasons:
 g0> 1) The ATMs works fine
 g0> 2) It costs a lot of money to redevelop and redeploy all of those ATM
 g0> systems all over the world.

Anymore...they are running Windows. Saw one which needed rebooting & was
stuck on a bare desktop.

 g0> I'm not sure how many corporations were using OS/2.  I never saw anyone
 g0> using it but I am a little too young I guess to see it in the corporate
 g0> world.  I didn't really get to see inside any big companies until the
 g0> mid 2000s.

Remember when I helped as a temp in setting up a bunch of PC's on a token
ring network at a call center for Ford back in the early 90's in Oklahoma
City. Much more recently...was at the DMV in Kingman, AZ & saw their systems.
Running Warp with that unmistakable desktop. 

Have a feeling much of Arca's funding is coming from businesses still running
the OS. With a server available for $999 to purchase...I suspect that my
purchase & those just like mine keep hobbyists happy. If just one of us make
a suggestion to buy that server...makes everyone happy.

ACME BBS-Member of fsxNet/WWIVNet/SciNet/AmigaNet/VKRadio/FidoNet/MicroNet.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/03/04 (Windows/32)
 * Origin: ACME BBS-W.Coyote & D.Brown are our best users.  (1:340/1000)

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