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ATMs, banks, and financial institutions invested a lot into OS/2 in the early 1990s. They want to run the same legacy software on modern machines so they need e
by orionblastar 11y ago
ATMs, banks, and financial institutions invested a lot into OS/2 in the early 1990s. They want to run the same legacy software on modern machines so they need eComStation or Blue Lion to do that.
OS/2 2.X runs great in QEMU and so does OS/2 3.0 WARP. I run OS/2 in a virtual machine because it is hard to get the older versions to run on bare metal.
The cost of rewriting the legacy OS/2 software to modern Windows costs more than just buying a new OS/2 license for a modern PC that could run it on modern hardware.
- agumonkey 11y agoI was mostly curious on how team develops on eCS or BL. What tools, what libs, practices.
- orionblastar 11y agoI really don't know, but I do know that the OS/2 Kernel hasn't changed since IBM stopped developing for it sometime between 1996-2006. I found this for OS/2 development tools: http://www.altsan.org/os2/toolkits/index.html http://www.altsan.org/os2/toolkits/index.html http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Main_Page http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Main_Page https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/OS2_Build_Prerequisites https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g... Apparently there is a version of GCC for OS/2 that they can use to compile source code. http://os2ports.smedley.info/ http://os2ports.smedley.info/ If they pay bounties for converting over libraries from GNU/Linux to OS/2 then they can start porting apps over to OS/2 as well.