2 Feb
2007
2 Feb
'07
5:59 p.m.
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Feb 1, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Warren Wolfe wrote:
For that fact, two of the radio stations I've done work for still use OS/2
on dedicated computers for some of their gear. One uses it to control a
huge bank of satellite receivers and schedules the equipment to tune into
and record a lot of their prerecorded network feeds.
-Toth
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.