Subj : Mystic on FreeBSD?
To : g00r00
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Mon Mar 09 2020 03:49 am
Hello g00r00!
09 Mar 20 12:49, you wrote to Don Lowery:
gr> If I am not misunderstood pretty much every ATM is (was) powered by
gr> OS/2 at the time and that was the primary thing keeping it going. I
gr> can think of two
gr> reasons:
gr> 1) The ATMs works fine
gr> 2) It costs a lot of money to redevelop and redeploy all of those ATM
gr> systems all over the world.
You are correct that ATMs were big users of OS/2.
gr> I suspect it was just a matter of "if it aint broke don't fix it" so
gr> they can either spend hundreds of millions of dollars to replace them
gr> without really gaining anything. Or they can wait for the hardware to
gr> die and replace them with something running Windows or Linux.
gr> I'm not sure how many corporations were using OS/2. I never saw
gr> anyone using it but I am a little too young I guess to see it in the
gr> corporate world. I didn't really get to see inside any big companies
gr> until the mid 2000s.
The US Postal Service and the old Grossman's home improvement chain in the
Northeast US are 2 examples I've seen.