(Excerpts from a message dated 10-10-99, Albert Sodyl to All.
  original topic: OS/2 Fixpak/Servicepak):

Hi Albert--

AS>Does anyone know what the latest version and where I get a service
  >pack for OS/2 2.1?  I'm just about finished downloading the 06200B
  >files from ftp.software.ibm.com in the directory
  >\ps\products\os2\fixes\v2.1x\english-us\06200a

AS>Is this the current version or is there another one?  It's just that
  >it seems old, only a year newer than when 2.1 came out

    OS/2 v 2.1 (or v 2.11) are obsolete and no longer supported,
irrespective of what you may find hidden away in the dusty corners of
IBM Web sites.  The following two paragraphs are quoted from the IBM
e-mail marketing newsletter "OS/2 WARP FM" for April 1998 ("1998" is not
a typo!).

 "There comes a time when all good things must come to an end.  For
  OS/2 customers still running the pre-Warp versions of OS/2, that
  time has arrived.  OS/2 2.11 and its predecessors served their
  users well, providing stability, flexibility and in their time
  leading edge capabilities.

 "The most pressing reason to migrate from the early OS/2 versions is
  Year 2000 compliance.  These releases are not and will not be made
  Year 2000 ready.  Fortunately, there are multiple alternatives for
  Year 2000 readiness.  The least drastic, least risky path to
  compliance is to migrate clients to OS/2 Warp 4 and servers to OS/2
  Warp Server 4.  Just recently the two major suppliers of ATM
  systems in the United States, DieBold and NCR, decided to address
  their Year 2000 problems by building OS/2 Warp 4 versions of their
  products.  Many other key OS/2 customer accounts have made similar
  decisions."

    The most recent client version of OS/2 is Warp 4 (OS/2 4.0).  AFAIK,
FixPak 12 is the most recent available, although I am happily running
Warp 4 with FixPak 5, which takes care of the Y2K bugs I am interested
in and supports the hardware I am using.

    Regards,
        --Murray

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