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Centurian:

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:



Yeah, show me a business that is actually going to use it.
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Hey VoidMain,

My wife works at an auto lighting factory. They make lights for all makes and models of new vehicles. The first time I went into their offices I found it quite interesting that they were and still are using OS/2 Warp 4.

Personally I have OS/2 Warp 3 but I dont care much for it.

Later
Centurian

voidmain:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a bad OS (even though I don't care much for it). And I am sure there are people still using it but MS really has the monopoly and I don't know of anybody developing for OS/2. I'm sure there are still people using it. I don't believe it's going to make any sort of comeback.

Centurian:
Hey,

I doubt it will make a come back either but some  business's at least in this area use it. The factory my wife works for is owned buy the Japanese. My understanding is that any updates that they require come directly from Japan. I can only guess that the Japanese are using their own people to support the OS exclusively for their factories.

Later
Centurian

voidmain:
Hopefully they keep using it and IBM keeps supporting it.  I thought IBM had already dropped it completely but if they are still selling it....  

I was the last one in my old company to get rid of it.  I had a distributed processing system that ran on 30 OS/2 Warp 3 machines. The vendor ported their code to WinNT so I was able to get rid of OS/2 and move to WinNT, although I would have preferred to go the full step to Linux I couldn't get the vendors to port their code at that time.  They eventually ported to Solaris and all processing was then able to be done on one large Sun server.

We had to write all the automated processing in house. On OS/2 we use REXX and VX-REXX.  Windows had no comparable language built in so I ended up porting the REXX code to Perl and using Activestate Perl.

All along I kept dreaming of how much easier it would have been to do everything on Linux (sigh).

BoogerHead:
Granted it is OLD...but how often did you see OS/2 crash?  As compared to NT?  It was an incredible product for its day...too bad.

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