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Re: [OM] OS/2 vs. OM marketing

Subject: Re: [OM] OS/2 vs. OM marketing
From: Christopher Biggs <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09 Jan 2000 13:04:00 +1000
Joseph <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxx> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> about half of the worlds bank ATM machines run OS/2 internally as their
> OS, so there are plenty of machines running Os/2 out there.  this would
> be impossible with a microsoft Os since you cannot really replace the
> graphical shell tool.
> 

(even more off topic) 

Funny you should mention embedded uses.  When I was in Scotland last
year, I saw a bus-stop information kiosk that ran WinNT.  I could
tell, 'cos it had the Blue Screen Of Death. :-)

ObOly: I took a picture of it with my Trip35.  

cjb, currently displaying apps from my unix box at work over a 28k8
modem link to my home box.  Try *that* with winders.  (OTOH, if I had
to go into the office to get work done, I'd still be able to claim
sick leave.  Bummer.)

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