Editing OS/2 (section)

==Historical uses==
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OS/2 has been widely used by Iran Export Bank (Bank Saderat Iran) in their teller machines, ATMs and local servers (over 35,000 working stations). As of 2011, the bank moved to virtualize and renew their infrastructure by moving OS/2 to Virtual Machines running over Windows.

OS/2 was widely used by [[Brazil]]ian banks. [[Banco do Brasil]] had a peak 10,000 machines running OS/2 Warp in the 1990s. OS/2 was used in [[automated teller machine]]s until 2006. The workstations and automated teller machines and attendant computers have been migrated to Linux.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.atmmarketplace.com/article.php?id=9929|archive-url= https://archive.today/20120728144512/http://www.atmmarketplace.com/article.php?id=9929|url-status= dead|archive-date= 2012-07-28|title= Brazilian banks look to Linux for ATMs|access-date= 2008-05-27}}</ref>

[[File:Atm os2warp.jpg|thumb|An ATM in Australia revealing during a reboot that it is based on OS/2 Warp]]

OS/2 has been used in the banking industry. [[Suncorp]] bank in [[Australia]] still ran its [[Automated teller machine|ATM]] network on OS/2 as late as 2002. ATMs at [[Perisher Ski Resort|Perisher Blue]] used OS/2 as late as 2009, and even the turn of the decade.<ref>{{cite news|title=NetIQ Manages Over 1000 Windows Servers for One of Australia's Largest Banks; ANZ Bank Completes Roll Out of NetIQ Management Software to 1,300 Servers|work=[[Business Wire]]|date=January 24, 2002|access-date=2010-01-24|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-82094600.html|format=fee}}{{Dead link|date=September 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

OS/2 was widely adopted by [[accounting]] professionals and [[auditing]] companies. In mid-1990s native 32-bit accounting software were well developed and serving corporate markets.

OS/2 ran the faulty [[baggage handling system]] at [[Denver International Airport]]. The OS was eventually scrapped, but the software written for the system led to massive delays in the opening of the new airport. The OS itself was not at fault, but the software written to run on the OS was. The baggage handling system was eventually removed.

OS/2 was used by radio personality [[Howard Stern]]. He once had a 10-minute on-air rant about OS/2 versus [[Windows 95]] and recommended OS/2. He also used OS/2 on his [[IBM ThinkPad 760|IBM 760CD]] laptop.

OS/2 was used as part of the Satellite Operations Support System (SOSS) for [[NPR]]'s [[Public Radio Satellite System]]. SOSS was a computer-controlled system using OS/2 that NPR member stations used to receive programming feeds via satellite. SOSS was introduced in 1994 using OS/2 3.0, and was retired in 2007, when NPR switched over to its successor, the [[Public Radio Satellite System#ContentDepot|ContentDepot]].

OS/2 was used to control the [[SkyTrain (Vancouver)|SkyTrain]] automated light rail system in [[Vancouver]], Canada until the late 2000s when it was replaced by [[Windows XP]].

OS/2 was used in the [[London Underground]] [[Jubilee Line Extension]] Signals Control System (JLESCS) in London, England. This control system delivered by Alcatel was in use from 1999 to 2011 i.e. between abandonment before opening of the line's unimplemented original automatic train control system and the present [[SelTrac]] system. JLESCS did not provide automatic train operation only manual train supervision. Six OS/2 local site computers were distributed along the railway between [[Stratford tube station|Stratford]] and [[Westminster tube station|Westminster]], the shunting tower at [[Stratford Market Depot]], and several formed the central equipment located at [[Neasden Depot]]. It was once intended to cover the rest of the line between [[Green Park tube station|Green Park]] and [[Stanmore tube station|Stanmore]] but this was never introduced.

OS/2 has been used by [[The Co-operative Bank]] in the UK for its domestic call centre staff, using a bespoke program created to access customer accounts which cannot easily be migrated to Windows.

OS/2 has been used by the [[Stop & Shop]] supermarket chain (and has been installed in new stores as recently as March 2010).

OS/2 has been used on ticket machines for [[Tramlink]] in outer-London.

OS/2 has been used in [[Metropolitan Transportation Authority|New York City's subway system]] for [[MetroCard]]s.<ref name="techl">{{cite magazine | title=25 Years of IBM's OS/2: The Strange Days and Surprising Afterlife of a Legendary Operating System | first=Harry | last=McCracken | series=Technologizer | magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | url=https://techland.time.com/2012/04/02/25-years-of-ibms-os2-the-birth-death-and-afterlife-of-a-legendary-operating-system/3/ | date=April 2, 2012 | access-date=April 9, 2013}}</ref>
Rather than interfacing with the user, it connects simple computers and the mainframes.
When NYC MTA finishes its transition to [[contactless payment]], OS/2 will be removed.<ref name="tedium">''[https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history/ Subway History: How OS/2 Powered The NYC Subway For Decades] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730062213/https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history/|date=2019-07-30}}'', [[Andrew Egan (writer)|Andrew Egan]], Jun 13, 2019, ''Tedium''</ref>

OS/2 was used in checkout systems at [[Safeway Inc|Safeway]] supermarkets.<ref name="techl" />

OS/2 was used by [[Trenitalia]], both for the desktops at Ticket Counters and for the Automatic Ticket Counters up to 2011. Incidentally, the Automatic Ticket Counters with OS/2 were more reliable than the current ones running a flavor of Windows.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}}

OS/2 was used as the main operating system for [[Abbey National]] General Insurance motor and home direct call centre products using the PMSC Series III insurance platform on DB2.2 from 1996 to 2001.