From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 28 10:48:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tch.org (tacostand.tch.org [199.74.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8188D14C0E for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:48:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ser@tch.org) Received: (from ser@localhost) by tch.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA36864; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:48:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ser) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:48:16 -0700 From: Steve Rubin To: Doug Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Point of Sale software Message-ID: <19990728104815.A36859@tch.org> References: <19990726205019.A30069@tch.org> <379D524D.53FD8463@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <379D524D.53FD8463@gorean.org>; from Doug on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 11:31:41PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > As much as I love freebsd, 80-90% of POS stuff runs on OS/2, and is time > and battle tested. I really doubt that most businesses would be willing to > risk their livelihood on something new, on an OS they've never heard of. > But, good luck if you decide to do it anyway. You might want to search the > archives, this has come up before. Acually, I needed it for a store I was going to be opening. For what i'm going to be doing it crashing wouldnt be a really big deal, so it would be a good testing grounds :). -- Steve Rubin - ser@tch.org - http://www.tch.org/~ser/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message