Extinct IBM OSs (was: Re: [rescue] Personal Progressions)

[Dave McGuire]

On February 10, George Adkins wrote:
> > >   Indeed, there's an OS/2 machine on every desk at every Bank of America
> > > branch that I've ever been in.  And many ATMs run OS/2.  Now mind you,
> > > I'm not a huge fan of OS/2...but face it, it's all over the place, and
> > > it won't be going away any time soon.
> >
> > Yup.  I recently saw an ATM who's ATM application had crashed with an OS/2
> > error.
> heh heh, 
> so the question is, how are ATM's networked?
> Ethernet? or... 

  Bad boy. ;)

  Some ATMs are on dialup connections, but most "high traffic" ones are
on low-speed (like 9.6kbps) leased lines running SNA.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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