Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 00:56:29 -0500 From: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> To: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: you'll like this.,.. maybe (Seriously Off Topic...) Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000110005235.00c71280@mail.enterit.com> In-Reply-To: <387A9E53.8C33A337@S1.com> References: <01be01bf5bda$a03836e0$0200000a@danco.home> <387A97E9.A988D5DC@twave.net> <387A9923.8E3962EE@twave.net>
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Well, while we are on the topic of cool nifty things such as these (Im expecting flames =P...I'll be brief) The current state's (notice not states') WAN fingerprint network runs on Dec Alphas using DEC Unix and Open Windows. Im in the Police Academy here and about tripped when I saw they were using these sweet machines to do the electronic fingerprinting. This network is tied into the National FBI network somehow but I have no idea how since well..its the Police Academy...not the Network Academy =P Jim At 14:06 11-01-00 +1100, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: >Hi, > >my thrippence worth ;') > > > Interesting. > > > > I once saw an EDS ATM machine at 7-Eleven reboot after a power failure. > > The little screen showed that it was a 386 machine with 16MB ram. It > > complained about not having a keyboard connected, then booted (of all > > things) OS/2, loaded the program manager (which looked like Windows > > 3.0) and then the ATM application... > > > >Some express some surprise at ATMs using OS/2. A friend of mine here in >Oz, who used to work for Philips (when they had a rpesence here in Oz) >looked after many of the banks ATMs here, and he said that they pretty >much all (until recently) used OS/2. Let's face it, it's a heck of a lot >more stable than MeSsy-DOG and friends ;') > >He even showed me a magical incantation on the keypad to force a reboot >and another to take the machine 'off-line' ;') So, when his bank ticked >him off, he could retaliate :') :'D > >I've heard that some newer ATMs are now using WinNT, but by far the >largest installed base at the moment is OS/2 - 'More than half an >Operating System' ;') > >On a similar topic - I've noticed a few 'Kiosk' style information >booths, with touch-screen pc's in them. Far too many have been sitting >at the BSoD :'/ > >Anyway, I have to get back to wrestling with NT - it's a dirty job, and >I wish I didn't have to do it. > >|-| > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today's errors, in contrast: Windows - "Invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll at 0032:A16F2935" UNIX - "segmentation fault - core dumped" Humanous Beingsus - "OOPS, I've fallen and I can't get up" ------------------------------- Jim Conner NOTJames jconner@enterit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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