OS/2 Warp 4 still alive!??

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Colt45

Colt45

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Nah, it still exists.. kind of. Mostly legacy stuff I think, companies that don't want to rewrite in house apps and such
 
halik

halik

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i worked at the local news papaer for a while and they had couple os/2 boxes sitting around for AP satellite feeds
 
Fritzo

Fritzo

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Couple of our clients still use it. It was an OS about 6 years ahead of it's time. Too bad it didn't come out later a little bit more polish, it would have given Windows 2000 a run for it's money.
 
MasterAndCommander

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A few years ago..maybe like 2 - I had to pickup something from Sears. Their kiosk was powered by OS2/Warp...and it crashed and had to be cold-booted.
 
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markgm

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I have a copy of it sitting in my office...at IBM. :) We joke that we're going to install it on some servers whenever they have a problem.
 
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AmigaMan

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Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
Many ATMs are powered by OS/2
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Yup, I can confirm that. The bank I used to work at had all it's ATM's based off of OS/2. Since they got bought out though, they're switching to Windows. BofA here I come!
 
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Mucho

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I work for a company that manufactures Point of Sales Terminals and several of our customers still uses OS/2
 
ultimatebob

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According to their support site, it's still supported until the end of 2006. Funny... I kicked all of the OS/2 junk out of my server room years ago when they stopped writing new commercial software for it.
 
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dderidex

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Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: Shawn
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Five!... Three sir. Three!
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Wow, that brings back memories. My dad was obsessed with it at the time (kinda like how the Linux crowd is blindly obsesses with their OS today).

It WAS kinda neat in that it could run Windows 3.1, OS/2, or DOS titles. At the time, that was unheard of (on a Win3.1 machine, you couldn't run DOS titles, you have to boot to DOS for that. And a DOS machine could only run DOS titles, of course. So an OS that could run ALL THREE....well, that was something!)

Unfortnately, there just wasn't the support for it. Wordperfect on OS/2 was....alright. But when Windows 95 hit and suddenly tons of games started coming out for Win95 that OS/2 couldn't do anything with....

Well, same reason Linux is useless for most people today. Windows just has the weight of software titles behind it. The best games are Windows-only, the best office applications come out first on Windows (if they ever get ported to other platforms), etc.

I couldn't say anything about server-side in any of these cases, though.
 
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