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Article #4695Re: All this OS/2 is dead talk.
From: Hallgeir Lied
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:00
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In article <w+rNzU9H9Q0Q092yn@reply.address>,
look@reply.address (Thore Harald Hoye) wrote:
>In article <5h35l6$m49@client3.news.psi.net>,
>os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
>>In article <CZGNzsbnbFDf089yn@ibm.net>, James Knott <jamesk@ibm.net> wrote:
>>>In article <5gvj9n$n6h@client3.news.psi.net>,
>>>os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
>>>>> Many banks in Canada. One of my aquaintences is working for a
>>>>>software company that recently got a contract for a bank to write software,
>>>>>in OS/2 for the bank.
>>>
>>>Well, there's the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Royal Bank of Canada,
>>>Toronto Dominion Bank, Bank of Montreal, Toyota, Honda, Bell Canada along with
>>>some parts of the Province of Ontario government among others. BTW, the above
>>>mentioned banks are all considerably larger than most U.S. banks. Also,
>>>whenever you use a money machine, you are probably using OS/2. However, the
>>
>>That would be 1.3, not 2.x or 3.x. 1.3 is MicrosoftWare.
>
>1.2 was the last version MS was doing anything in. v1.3 was released by
>IBM only.
I have maintained a network file and app server that was running Lan
Manager 2.1 Advanced, and the OS presented itself as Microsoft OS/2 ver
1.30. Of course, the OS did not tell who actually did the coding.
From the kernel file:
'Internal revision 7.224MS, 91/06/24'
Os2loader presented itself on the screen like this:
Microsoft (R) Operating System/2 Version 1.3
(C) Copyright Microsoft Corp. 1981-1991. All rights reserved.
U.S. Patent No. 4779187; 4825358
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