On 05/22/2016 12:43 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Not that running OS/2 evern did any CPU any good (or bad it would seem).
Actually, OS/2 lasted for quite a while in the financial sector because it was far more stable than Windows. It ran the ATMs for many years and was also used in point of sales systems (the servers, not POS terminals). Another thing it had with Warp 3 and later was excellent networking support. It included many things that MS charged extra for with NT. I seem to recall with NT, you had to pay for the server version according to how many users you were planning on having. This didn't happen with Warp Server. I even recall a demo, where you could, for example, share Novell Netware servers with someone who wasn't running a Netware client. This was done by mounting the Novell file share on the Warp Server and sharing it from there. Back then, even basic telnet and ftp servers were built into OS/2, but were extra cost with NT. When I was at IBM, I set up an ftp server on my own computer, where I could find files, when helping someone with there computer.