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A few weeks ago I was up late watching GoldenEye on WGN -- one of the best James Bond films by the way, up there with Goldfinger and Casino Royale -- and out of the corner of my eye I notice something on a computer monitor as Trevelyan's base is exploding. I thought I saw it, but I wasn't sure. So I go to my closet and get out the GoldenEye DVD and put it in the DVD player. In past viewings of GoldenEye I had noticed the other IBM references: all the computer monitors have large IBM logos on them, Q's laptop is an IBM, and Natalya goes into a computer store with an IBM sign to demo an IBM compatible computer.
This viewing though was the first time I noticed the OS/2 Warp logo on a computer screen (see below).



I just found it interesting and didn't know of anyone else had noticed or caught it. Although, I'm sure that I'm not the first person to ever notice it.

Very good find!

The new James Bond film comes out soon!

Q's laptop is an IBM

lol that's awesome. was that the one with the fold-up keyboard?

Virtually every computer in Goldeneye was an IBM running OS/2, except the MovieOS screens that the "hacker" used. We thought it was hilarious at the time being university students. Goldeneye has all kinds of horribly obvious product placement, including the BMW roadster and the famous parker pen grenade.

I always wondered whether IBM had considered that having the evil agent be such a prominent Warp user might actually be counterproductive to their image, especially since the computer screens seemed to always be showing the startup screen like they were crashing all the time.

un_ wrote: I always wondered whether IBM had considered that having the evil agent be such a prominent Warp user might actually be counterproductive to their image

The bad guys always have the better technology. The good guys only win because they are brave honest and true. Also good in bed.

especially since the computer screens seemed to always be showing the startup screen like they were crashing all the time.

That's the screen saver. Warp never crashes. The desktop just locks up solid while your background stuff keeps chugging away. Really annoying.

.. and since you can't do anything with it to get your stuff back it might as well have blue screened

The Escom PC I owned at the time Goldeneye came out actually came with OS/2. Since they omitted to include a graphics card that OS/2 supported in more than VGA mode, it was rapidly converted to Windows 95.

un_ wrote: .. and since you can't do anything with it to get your stuff back it might as well have blue screened

From a desktop point of view, yeah. Pisses one off altho it got a lot better towards the end. With the smp versions it was better yet. But if you are running mail, ftp, bulletin boards, file serving it's nice to have everything continue no matter what the desktop is doing. Until Lose2k Windows was just shit. Ran Warp 3 smp on an HP Lpr for two years just recently, the only time it was down was when the electricity went off. (In summer that's about once a week. We're pretty third world here.)

Just playing around recently with a 4-cpu Intel IBM, in direct comparison Warp is still way faster than CentOS, Novell Linux, or Open Solaris. That's what I'd use if I had any sense but got the hots for OpenSol ....