When did the last OS/2 user logout?

[FrustratedUser]

OS/2 is dead. But are there still anyone using it.

 

[Willoughbyva]

I would still use it if my system was compatiable with it. I guess it has just gone by the wayside. I think some banks might be using some of the OS/2 code, but I'm not sure about the OS itself. They have a machine at school that still uses it because they have a specialized piece of software that they need it for.

Will

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
OS/2 is dead. But are there still anyone using it.

no one REALLY used OS/2.... I think it was a figment of our imagination :Q

 

[RudeBoie]

Businesses were always the major user for OS/2.

 

[Aves]

You can still buy OS/2 Warp 4 from IBM

link

 

[yakko]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
OS/2 is dead. But are there still anyone using it.

A lot of businesses still use it.

 

[Nemesis77]

You can also find it in such places as ATM-machines.

 

[Muadib]

Many places still use it. It's not dead at all.

 

[dethman]

i coudl never get the damn thing to work with all my peripherals.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Instead of a Linux user being a Microsoft basher now a Microsoft user being an IBM basher?

 

[vi edit]

The library at the college I went to still uses it for their book check in/out computer.

 

[BigJohnKC]

I never used it myself, but I had a boss that once said since OS/2 is half an operating system, it runs well on a Celeron, half a processor.

 

[FrustratedUser]

I just saw the specs.

Supports OS/2, DOS, Java and most Windows 3.X applications

Wow!!! It can run Win3.1 programs. Ahem...... fossil-software?

 

[mikebb]

My company still uses it.

 

[Beau]

I use it on my voice mail system.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: Muadib
Many places still use it. It's not dead at all.

Especially in Europe.

We bought a tablet-press here at work whose controller is based on OS/2. We have the install disks and everything.

amish

 

[Adul]

Banks still use it. Bank of america I know uses OS/2 still.

 

[Carl Uman]

MCI used it when I worked there 6 years ago. I used it home but finally gave up went with Win95.

 

[Jzero]

You will often find it in ATMs, ticket kiosks and other applications of that type. It's still very heavily used, in part because, as BigJohnKC said, you don't need much power to run it, so it's great for small embedded systems.

 

[ElFenix]

if i ever find it for.. uh... free... yeah... i'll get it just to mess around with. and to piss off people that try to use my computer. "wtf is this!?" heck, some nut probably ported mozilla to it.

 

[Cerebus451]

We still have 2 machines here at work running OS/2. Actually, they aren't really running OS/2, they are actually OS/390 mainframes, but the machines are actually Intel machines that boot into OS/2, then the actual mainframe system is run on top of that.

 

[dman]

We still have 2 machines here at work running OS/2. Actually, they aren't really running OS/2, they are actually OS/390 mainframes, but the machines are actually Intel machines that boot into OS/2, then the actual mainframe system is run on top of that.

I suspect you are running CM/2 (or whatever the current incarnation is) which is a Host Emulator to allow you to communicate with some OS/390 mainframes. I don't believe that OS/390 runs on top of OS/2 on intel platform.

The Sears terminal where you go to enter your info in so you can pick-up your merchandise runs OS/2. I know because the app had crashed and the WPS was running. Unfortunately, there was no (user accessable) keyboard so I couldn't do much with the touchscreen interface, but, I could tell it to "cancel the print job" every few moments.

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<- Former OS/2 Tech Support guy and one of the few OS2 CE's in the world.

 

[Cerebus451]

Originally posted by: dman6666

I suspect you are running CM/2 (or whatever the current incarnation is) which is a Host Emulator to allow you to communicate with some OS/390 mainframes. I don't believe that OS/390 runs on top of OS/2 on intel platform.

On one machine, OS/390 is run on a card in the machine. The machine itself is a PII that boots into OS/2, then you start up the mainframe from there, and it runs inside a window within OS/2. You can interact with OS/2 while the mainframe is running. It is what they called a unified server, as you could use the OS/2 side as a server while the machine was also acting as a mainframe.

Now that I think about it, we have a newer OS/390 system that is different, and it might not actually boot to OS/2. I am not positive on this one. It is a similary setup, though, as it has an Intel chip that boots the machine into some OS, then the mainframe gets fired up from there. These are low-end mainframes as we are a software development shop and don't use the mainframes for any actual work, just compiling and testing.

 

[BillGates]

I saw an OS/2 box for sale at a thrift store last year, I think they were trying to get $30 for it. Probably had no idea what a computer used and that it was cutting edge.

(But as to why they didn't realize why it was donated??)