Re: [PCTECH]OS/2 (was HANG time...)

[Alan <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom, Booth,

What was the hubbub about OS/2 a couple of years back? IBM dropped some 
level of support for it, which caused a lot of banks to start looking 
for alternatives. (I saw an OS/2 Warp screen on my bank's ATM once, 
rebooting during a crazy power on/off see-saw).

- Alan

> But what I've been pondering is the thought of IBM getting active with 
> it again. Maybe the time is becoming right to bring focus back to it. 
> It is still for sale from IBM AFAIK. It was the last time I looked.
>
> Not positioned quite like they did back then; in a somewhat different 
> way.