2 Feb
2007
2 Feb
'07
8:50 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
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.
Doc
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.