OS/2 stillborn, was Re: TRS-80 Model 1, etc

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jay West wrote:
> Will wrote...
>> One of the eastern supermarket chains runs OS/2, running the checkout
>> lines. You would not know unless you see the machine boot.
> 
> I happened to be at two different banks drive-through ATM machines in 
> recent memory when they had failed and I was able to see them boot. The 
> ATM machines were actually running OS/2. And these weren't small local 
> banks - they were large regional/national ones.


They used OS/2 because it interfaces with their backoffice mainframes so 
well.

Peace...  Sridhar