[ams6110]

Well, as a commercial endeavor, I would really have to wonder if there's enough of a market to sustain a business. I'm sure there's the odd OS/2 system still running here and there but nobody today is interested in expanding that footprint. At best you'll sell upgrades to people who are still using it -- a customer base that will only shrink over time.

If it were an open-source project, yeah "why not" is a fine answer.

[Zardoz84]

ATMs of Santander bank keeps running on OS/2

If you saw my face when I saw the OS/2 bootup screen on a ATM that just rebooted when I was in front of it...

[sixothree]

You should have seen my face when my bank booted into Windows XP.

[ams6110]

Honestly for an ATM, DOS would be fine.

[cwyers]

I agree it's not a growth market, but there's a lot of OS/2 in places you wouldn't expect, like ATMs and point of sale systems, if you keep the price low enough you can avoid increasing the pressure to upgrade, and you can make a comfortable income for a while.

[Zardoz84]

This explain why Santander's ATMs (4B ATM) have the same UI since 90's and can't send an email instead of printing on paper when you do some operation on it.

[justinclift]

As a general thought, hooking up ATM machines to the general internet sounds like it would be a source of "fun" for years to come.

For your point though, most probably it wouldn't be the ATM that does it. The ATM would send/queue a notification to some other resource in the bank network, for that to do the whole email notification piece. But that should be possible today (or even years ago).

[eru]

> The ATM would send/queue a notification to some other resource in the bank network, for that to do the whole email notification piece.

Reminds me of those people using `resource' as a synonym for `warm body'..

(You are absolutely right in your intended meaning, though.)

[mwfunk]

I agree, but usually when people post nothing more than "why?", they're not communicating that they're a customer or potential investor who is concerned about the long-term viability of the product or the company. Usually when people post nothing more than "why?", it's a lazy of saying "I think this is stupid", because if they did just come out and say "I think this is stupid", it would make their absence of a supporting argument all the more glaring.