Viktor, OS/2 is slowly dieing, IBM stopped selling it a few years ago, from then on it is sold as eComStation by a small company. You can see it at www.ecomstation.com.
I think OS/2 is going to be more or less like AmigaOS, a love of the past for those who used it and still like it even if, today, Mac OS X or some linux distro can replace an OS/2 pc without too much problems. I think it is still used by some large company (which are moving to something else; here in Italy, for example, the mail service still uses it) and some very peculiar application, like ATMs, because of its stability and very limited resource demands. Best regards. Maurilio. PS. I still use it here at work in a couple of pcs. One of them hosts the web server which handles our site and our intranet. Viktor Szakáts wrote: >>> The other issue here is stable releases. If there is >>> no one able to test OS/2 builds, we should remove it >>> from the "green light" list, otherwise we will have >>> unnecessary delays on each official release :( >>> >> >> You are right to an extent. >> >> But a note: as we are heading towards Xbase++ compatible classes, >> and Xbase++ supoorts only Windows and OS2, probably we must >> reconsider this decision. Anyway, I am not in a position to give a >> concrete opinion on this matter. > > That's okay and I'd definitely be happy if OS/2 could be > supported somehow. But again, it needs someone to do some > build tests at least. > > FWIW, Alaska doesn't offer an OS/2 release of Xbase++ > anymore. I don't know when did they stop. AFAIK OS/2 was > popular in Germany in the times when there was no > stable 32-bit MT OS on the market. I'd think most OS/2 > users have since jumped onto some NT based OS or some > *nix. > > It would be good to know what is the status of OS/2 > these days, generally. Who is using it, and for what tasks? > What are the trends? > > Brgds, > Viktor > > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list > Harbour@harbour-project.org > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour > -- __________ | | | |__| Maurilio Longo |_|_|_|____| farmaconsult s.r.l. _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
