kjellsbells
3 hours ago
Since this is commercial and has been rolling along for a few years now I infer that there are still customers out there, who in some incredible fashion, cannot get off of OS/2. And, based on what features ArcaOS concentrates on, they must be stuck on 32bit with pretty old, yet hard to emulate well, services: SCSI for example.
I envisage a 1996-era Gateway PC in the bowels of Madison Square Garden controlling the light show for Aerosmith or something. But then my mind goes, really? There's no path to Windows, or Linux, after 30 years?
I can understand people staying on z/OS, or even AS/400, but OS/2?
smackeyacky
2 hours ago
Lost the source code to your elevator control app? Stuck on OS/2. Guy who wrote it is dead, never used source control, you don’t use it in new installations but those old elevators still have to run and the PC hardware has long died and is irreplaceable? Then you have no choice but call ArcaOS.
I’ve seen more than one place where that scenario or something similar has occurred.