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

 

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Silly me, I thought this had already happened 10 years ago.

Yousuf Khan

 

[keith]

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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:40:58 -0700, YKhan wrote:

> Silly me, I thought this had already happened 10 years ago.

Yes, silly you.

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YKhan wrote:
> Silly me, I thought this had already happened 10 years ago.
>

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.

It's not official until Netcraft confirms it, though.

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In article <pf7gd1t6lcdal7pvrmsi1t1cp7rtvhpfo3@4ax.com>, lyon_wonder
<lyon_wonder@yahoo.com> writes

>IBM to officially discontinue all support of OS/2 by December of 2006,

I thought some of the major banks still relied on OS/2.

>encourages remaining userbase switch to Linux.

Many cash machines certainly used to run OS/2. You could tell when the
banks started migrating them to Windows - they began blue-screening.

 

[keith]

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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:48:01 -0500, lyon_wonder wrote:

> 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

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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keith wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:48:01 -0500, lyon_wonder wrote:
>
>
>>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
>
>
> Ok Yousuf, what exactly do you think the 'B' in IBM means? Get with the
> program! Sheesh, you never got the message? Amazing.
>

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

 

[keith]

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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:42:51 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:

> keith wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:48:01 -0500, lyon_wonder wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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
>>
>>
>> Ok Yousuf, what exactly do you think the 'B' in IBM means? Get with the
>> program! Sheesh, you never got the message? Amazing.
>>
>
> I think there's a problem with the quoting levels above. That last
> paragraph wasn't mine, that must've been Lyon's.

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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Keith