offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

Jules Richardson wrote: It's been used in some ATM's in the States, too. People have mentioned getting to the desktop or a shell and manipulating ATM's from there, somehow. OS/2 is used for ASM semiconductor systems as well as a few others. Apparently there's nothing better on the shelf. It certainly seems that it is the most stable commercial OS to build a critical, real-time system upon, a necessity for equipment that must run reliably, continuously for ten years or so. In the equipment I was responsible for (read "got to play with"), there has never been an OS failure since they were first powered up seven years ago. Every MS based system has an OS failure at least once a month, typically at a critical process step, sometimes resulting in some very costly mechanical carnage. == jd