Guys,
My wife recently got a job at a bridal retail chain that uses NCR 386/486
UNIX for the POS terminals and financial matters relating to the operation
of the store.
It's running on what appears to be an NCR 386 (or 486?) with a tape backup,
and services four WYSE terminals and a printer. Seems to be a standard
setup for the stores in this chain.
There is also a WYSE CE terminal connected via ADSL to a Citrix server -
but that is naturally a piece of sh*t. Always crashing. Situation normal
for Windows.
Just curious if anyone here has had experience with this flavor of UNIX. I
used to work at Radio Shack and at the time we ran the entire store from a
386 running XENIX. It handled *EVERYTHING*. Performance of the whole system
was quite impressive. This NCR system seems to be rock solid and has decent
performance.
Just curious. It's neat to see something other than Windows "in the wild".
- Matt
Matthew Sell
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