I was in Brazil recently and saw tux on the screen of "Banco do Brasil" ATMs in Rio de Janeiro GIG airport :o) Very cool.

Matthias Johnson wrote:

Also another interesting thing from the Wikipedia article was that the Brazilian banking system often used OS2, using it in their ATM until 2006 when it was scrapped then replaced with Linux.

Matthias

On Jul 28, 2010 9:20 PM, "Orion Vianna" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Mark Wallace wrote:
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> I thought that it was something else, altogether.  My mis impression is
> th...

some interesting info about OS/2 on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2

for example "OSFree is an attempt to recreate the OS/2 Operating System (Specifically OS/2 Warp 4) from scratch and licensed under the GNU GPL."

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