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

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Doc Shipley wrote:
> Dave McGuire wrote:
>> On Feb 1, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Warren Wolfe wrote:
>>>     IBM licensed MS-DOS from Microsoft, and CP/M-86 from Digital
>>> Research, and did NOT develop their own Operating System until OS/2,
>>> which was essentially stillborn.
>>
>>   Oh nonono.  I'm sorry to have to correct you here Warren, but 
>> nothing could be further from the truth.  First, OS/2 was written by 
>> Microsoft and sold to IBM.  OS/2 was FAR from stillborn...it was in 
>> use in damn near every bank office in the country for a very long 
>> time, with probably half of those installations likely still in 
>> place...I know the two banks I go to regularly still run it on at 
>> least one desktop.  OS/2 is an extremely widely deployed operating 
>> system...you just can't buy it in Best Buy, so people think it's 
>> dead...or never lived in the first place.  It was only discontinued 
>> 1.5 years ago.
> 
>   For some very peculiar value of "discontinued".
> 
>   IBM has announced OS/2's end-of-life more times than I can count. 
> Customers keep offering huge sums to keep up mintenance, IBM will keep 
> maintaining it.
> 
>   The last time I actually checked was in October or so, but I could 
> still get a current copy.

And isn't eCS going to be made (or updated even) for a while yet?

Peace...  Sridhar