I ran it at home for a couple of years (OS/2 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 "warp"), I
finally gave up on it because IBM never got permission to support Windows95
applications in a shell.

It worked very well, though - never crashed.  DOS and Windows sessions
crashed, but the OS never failed.  And it was so configurable!

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Kevin Lange [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
        Sent:   Monday, August 27, 2001 3:47 PM
        To:     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
        Subject:        RE: OT -  DB2 for OS/2

        Until last year my old company was still extensively into OS/2
servers.  We
        had DB2 on them as well.    

        All kidding aside about dead OS's....  OS/2 was a excellent OS.  It
was
        solid in its last incarnation and IBM software ran great on it.  Our
biggest
        trouble was finding outside software to run on it.

        If it was not for the fact that no desktop apps were available, we
would
        probably never have gotten off of it as a desktop solution for the
company.

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        Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 1:01 PM
        To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


        Isn't OS/2 still used extensively by banks to run ATM's? If that's
the case,
        then IBM would have a vested interest in keeping DB2 current on
OS/2.

        --Walt Weaver
          Bozeman, Montana

        -----Original Message-----
        Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:46 AM
        To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


        I can't believe it, they have a beta DB2 v.7.1. for OS/2, same
release
        number as for AIX.  

        I thought that OS was dead!

        Patrice Boivin
        Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

        Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des syst�mes
        Technology Services        | Services technologiques
        Informatics Branch         | Direction de l'informatique 
        Maritimes Region, DFO      | R�gion des Maritimes, MPO

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