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Re:Hobbes OS/2 Archive: As of April 15th, 2024 this site wil... by winrid on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:47PM (#38934059)
Someone was maintaining a MySQL build for OS/2 up until 2019!?

https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?path=%2Fpub%2Fos2%2Fserver%2Fdataba...

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Re:Hobbes OS/2 Archive: As of April 15th, 2024 this site wil... by pakyr on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @10:30PM (#38935782)
Better yet: there is a company that is still currently maintaining and selling a commerical copy of OS/2![0]

[0]https://www.arcanoae.com/

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Re:Hobbes OS/2 Archive: As of April 15th, 2024 this site wil... by pavlov on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @01:21AM (#38936883)
As an IBM product, OS/2 was part of some very long support contracts with companies like banks that also had z/OS mainframes.

There was OS/2 in some ATMs well into the 2000s, but I don’t know when those might have been replaced.

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Re:Hobbes OS/2 Archive: As of April 15th, 2024 this site wil... by wk_end on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @11:49AM (#38940560)
Pretty sure MTA (NYC subway) ticket machines were running OS/2 into the mid 2010s and maybe still are.
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