From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 00:01:02 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 432 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Saturday 24 August 2002 Number 432 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: [os2genau] Most operating systems : madodel at ptdprolog dot net **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:48:59 -0400 From: madodel at ptdprolog dot net Subject: Re: [os2genau] Most operating systems In <200208231255.000043SJ at server1.os2site dot com>, on 08/22/02 at 10:43 PM, nickl at arach dot net dot au said: >The odd thing is, that an organization that is supposed to look after >money, is stupid enough to fall for the expensive way to do business. >From what I understand, most of the banks, in North America (the US, and >Canada), use OS/2 for their online banking support. You would think that >their IT departments would know enough to support OS/2, and test things >with OS/2, but that is not always the case. I think the major problem is >that they think they are getting a superior service, if the contract >things, like web site creation, out to companies like Microsoft. That >works okay, for those who have been brainwashed into using a Microsoft >OS, but the rest of the people end up being left out in the cold. > >----------------------- >What do you think? A couple years ago I had to contact Discover Card (Do you have that Down Under?) Its a very large credit card processing/financial outfit in the US with their own credit card (not a VISA or Master Card, though accepted by most businesses here). When they replied to my email query (unrelated to computers) I checked the X-Mailer: line in the heading and sure enough it was Netscape 4 for OS/2. I don't know if they still use it, but when I asked, they said their customer support people all ran it. In the US I have had no problems accessing my account information from Fidelity Brokerage or Mellon bank using 4.61 or Warpzilla. Though I don't do much with online access. Mark -- From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel Warpstock 2002, Come to the home of OS/2 - Austin, Texas http://www.warpstock dot org For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice dot org "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That in it's essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Message proposing the Monopoly Investigation, 1938 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------