IBM officially kills off OS/2, finally

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IBM to officially discontinue all support of OS/2 by December of 2006,
encourages remaining userbase switch to Linux.

http://theinquirer.net/?article=24625

.... and I thought the remaining OS/2 userbase, besides large
corporations, equaled the number of fingers on one's hand:)
 
YKhan said:
Silly me, I thought this had already happened 10 years ago. :-)
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Yes, silly you. IBM stopped selling and supporting OS/2 in the
retail channel a few years ago, but they've had outstanding
support for it for businesses.

I used it as my primary OS at home until about 3 years ago,
multi-booting with NT4 and W2K. It finally got wiped only a few
months ago when I wanted to free up a partition to try out the
XP-64 beta.
 
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Silly me, I thought this had already happened 10 years ago. :-)
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It's not official until Netcraft confirms it, though. :-)

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lyon_wonder said:
IBM to officially discontinue all support of OS/2 by December of 2006,
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I thought some of the major banks still relied on OS/2.
encourages remaining userbase switch to Linux.
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Many cash machines certainly used to run OS/2. You could tell when the
banks started migrating them to Windows - they began blue-screening.
 
IBM to officially discontinue all support of OS/2 by December of 2006,
encourages remaining userbase switch to Linux.

http://theinquirer.net/?article=24625

... and I thought the remaining OS/2 userbase, besides large
corporations, equaled the number of fingers on one's hand:)
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Ok Yousuf, what exactly do you think the 'B' in IBM means? Get with the
program! Sheesh, you never got the message? Amazing.
 
keith said:
Ok Yousuf, what exactly do you think the 'B' in IBM means? Get with the
program! Sheesh, you never got the message? Amazing.
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I think there's a problem with the quoting levels above. That last
paragraph wasn't mine, that must've been Lyon's.

Yousuf Khan
 
I think there's a problem with the quoting levels above. That last
paragraph wasn't mine, that must've been Lyon's.
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Indeed it was. Sorry. The original must not have shown up yet or was
misthreaded somehow.

There was supposed to be a smiley in there somewhere too, but...
 
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