I just saw this article today about how OS/2 is powering New York City's subway systems:
https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-sybway-os2-history/

I thought it was interesting, since many BBS sysops used to use OS/2 and some still do.

Nightfox

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Re: OS/2 powering New York City's subway systems
By: Nightfox to All on Fri Jun 14 2019 12:33 pm

I just saw this article today about how OS/2 is powering New York City's subway systems:
https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-sybway-os2-history/

Fixed URL:
https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history/

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Re: OS/2 powering New York City's subway systems
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Fri Jun 14 2019 01:25 pm

Fixed URL:
https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history/

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Nightfox wrote to All <=-

I just saw this article today about how OS/2 is powering New York
City's subway systems: https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-sybway-os2-history/

I thought it was interesting, since many BBS sysops used to use OS/2
and some still do.

If it's stable and it's not connected to the internet, old OSes work
just fine. Northern Telecom PBXes used NT 4.0 embedded for their core
OS, it was on it's own LAN, usually you'd get to it by PPPing into it
directly or through a jump box.



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Re: Re: OS/2 powering New York City's subway systems
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat Jun 15 2019 08:10 am

Nightfox wrote to All <=-

I thought it was interesting, since many BBS sysops used to use OS/2 and some still do.

If it's stable and it's not connected to the internet, old OSes work
just fine. Northern Telecom PBXes used NT 4.0 embedded for their core
OS, it was on it's own LAN, usually you'd get to it by PPPing into it directly or through a jump box.

A lot of banks used to run their ATM's on OS/2. Most have moved off to WindowsNT so they can get support and install additional tools like firewalls, IDS/IPS and antivirus.

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Re: Re: OS/2 powering New York City's subway systems
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat Jun 15 2019 08:10 am

I thought it was interesting, since many BBS sysops used to use OS/2
and some still do.

If it's stable and it's not connected to the internet, old OSes work
just fine. Northern Telecom PBXes used NT 4.0 embedded for their core
OS, it was on it's own LAN, usually you'd get to it by PPPing into it directly or through a jump box.

People often say 'not connected to the internet', though it seems many BBSes run on old OSes.. I've heard of people still using OS/2 for their BBS, for instance.

Nightfox

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Ernest J Gainey Iii wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

If it's stable and it's not connected to the internet, old OSes work
just fine. Northern Telecom PBXes used NT 4.0 embedded for their core
OS, it was on it's own LAN, usually you'd get to it by PPPing into it directly or through a jump box.

A lot of banks used to run their ATM's on OS/2. Most have moved off to WindowsNT so they can get support and install additional tools like firewalls, IDS/IPS and antivirus.

Just correcting myself - CallPilot (The voicemail system) ran on NT
4.0. The PBX ran X11, their OS, which ran either on bare metal on
older propietary CPUs, on top of Motorola CPUs, and later as an app
layer on VXWorks and later Linux on Intel CPUs. Same OS, same
software, same commands, a ton of hardware platforms.



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