2 Feb
2007
2 Feb
'07
6:46 p.m.
Doc Shipley wrote:
Dave McGuire wrote:
And isn't eCS going to be made (or updated even) for a while yet?
Peace... Sridhar
On Feb 1, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Warren Wolfe wrote:
For some very peculiar value of "discontinued".
IBM has announced OS/2's end-of-life more times than I can count.
Customers keep offering huge sums to keep up mintenance, IBM will keep
maintaining it.
The last time I actually checked was in October or so, but I could
still get a current copy. IBM licensed MS-DOS from Microsoft, and
CP/M-86 from Digital
Research, and did NOT develop their own Operating System until OS/2,
which was essentially stillborn.
Oh nonono. I'm sorry to have to correct you here Warren, but
nothing could be further from the truth. First, OS/2 was written by
Microsoft and sold to IBM. OS/2 was FAR from stillborn...it was in
use in damn near every bank office in the country for a very long
time, with probably half of those installations likely still in
place...I know the two banks I go to regularly still run it on at
least one desktop. OS/2 is an extremely widely deployed operating
system...you just can't buy it in Best Buy, so people think it's
dead...or never lived in the first place. It was only discontinued
1.5 years ago.