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["Craig Duncan" <craigduncan AT nc.rr.com>]

Many of the ATM's used to run on OS2, what happened and why would anyone in
their right mind chnage to use IE for an ATM application - oh yeah,
management was too dumb and bought the M$BS hook, line and sinker :=(

-----Original Message-----
From: Josep L. Guallar-Esteve [mailto:jlguallar AT maduixa.net]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 1:05 PM
To: InterNetWorkers
Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Internet Explorer in the new ATMs


A Divendres 14 Desembre 2001 12:03 pm, vàreu escriure:
> On Friday 14 December 2001 12:01 pm, you wrote:
> > At 11:53 AM 12/14/2001 -0500, Michael S Czeiszperger wrote:
> >  >I can't believe someone would build an ATM on top of Windows and
> >  > Internet Explorer!!!!

> Bank of America is the culprit. Avoiding them won't do any good, since
> there's only a few ATM vendors, and there's likely to be more banks using
> the same system. If one of the competiting ATM companies is using a
> competing operating system, there's a good story in there somewhere.

FYI:

Most of ATM units in Spain run on OS/2

Yes. Really. OS/2 is still alive (and well) on the Spanish Banking System.

A few used to run WindowsCE or something similar... until Y2K, when they all
crashed, even after getting all the possible patchs. Shortly after, they
started to switch to something else. Not sure what. OS/2? *nix thing?

Marvelous OSs!


I will enjoy them next week, because I'm going to Barcelona next Monday.

Have a Happy Holidays! Bon Nadal!



Salut,
Josep
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Josep Lluis Guallar-Esteve     http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/index_en.html


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