From: https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155912&cid=13069642 https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155912&cid=1306964... We wrote a large body of bu

From: https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155912&cid=13069642 https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155912&cid=1306964... We wrote a large body of building automation software subsystems in OS/2. There was no easy way to provide the same functionality in Windows, so it was never cost effective to port it. To this day, we keep the central routing server and all the subsystems in OS/2 boxes that are treated like embedded control systems, and have written Windows 2K-based interface code that proxies everything as BACnet devices. OS/2 was a good combination of modern OS services (named pipes, threads, etc.) and easy development. Given how simple it was to access serial ports, we could easily interface via DigiBoard multiplexers and such, and could write a new system driver (including reverse engineering time) in less than six months. I'm the primary contact for IBM in our office, so they've been flooding me with information about porting these apps to Linux, which sadly, may never be cost effective. I am very sorry to see this event, even though I fully understand and appreciate all the factors that led to OS/2's demise. It's like watching a very dependable ship being sent to the bottom of the ocean because it's too expensive to keep it afloat. Oh well... Tim