Subj : Re: Mystic on FreeBSD?
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Tue Mar 10 2020 09:50 pm

-=> On 03-09-20 12:35, Ward Dossche wrote to g00r00 <=-

 g> If I am not misunderstood pretty much every ATM is (was) powered by OS/2
 g> at the time and that was the primary thing keeping it going.

 WD> Let's limit that to "every ATM in North America".

Yep.  I'm sure I've seen a Windows error message on an ATM in Australia.

 WD> Here in Europe I've seen XP. Automated ticket-machines for trains here
 WD> also run XP. As well as ticket machines for regional public transport.

Don't know what the ticket machines run here, but the live tram arrival boards
in central Melbourne run Linux - I've seen one start up, with the unmistakable
penguins. :)  Another point of interest is their monitors are actually mounted
upside down, and the information screen is inverted by the system, so it's
displayed the right way up.

 WD> Little known to many but most in-flight entertainment systems on
 WD> aircraft run on Linux.

Interesting, but Linux is a logical choice - it can be tweaked to suit specific
applications.


.... Fear is no great respecter of reason.
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