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Martin Iturbide

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OS/2 for Industrial Use
« on: January 16, 2024, 07:48:56 pm »
Hello

Just a friendly reminder that I like to collect information on how OS/2 is used in industrial machinery.

I share my findings with all of you here: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/OS/2_Related_Industrial_Machinery

Please, if you know any other Industrial Machine that uses OS/2, please let me know.
Pictures of the machine, pictures of any special card it may use, software screenshots, catalogs, manuals are welcome.

What is kind of awesome is when we try to replace only the PC part of this machinery with a modern PC and maybe with ArcaOS. Depending on the machinery it is challenging to try to find a PCI card that may replace an old ISA one. Sometimes is possible, sometimes not.

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« Last Edit: January 16, 2024, 07:53:06 pm by Martin Iturbide »
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Sergey Posokhov

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Re: OS/2 for Industrial Use
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2024, 12:29:22 am »

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Re: OS/2 for Industrial Use
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2024, 09:16:20 pm »
Thanks for the feedback Sergey.

I will translate it and see what I can summarize on the wiki about those solutions.

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Re: OS/2 for Industrial Use
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2024, 09:20:36 pm »
PCs cannot replace PLCs, a Soft-PLC is not a PLC CPU equivalent. The same applies to Slot-PLCs.

Solutions based on OS/2 were mostly used for SCADA or HMI systems - completely irrelevant these days.