Matthew Sell wrote:
> 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".
>
This is the machine I was using right out of college. We used to sell this as
the system
to run our application on. Remember all those nights trying to port our
COBOL (yes, COBOL)
application that used to run on a NCR unix box (aka UNISYS machine) (and a
mini from NCR,
which I cant seem to remember the name) to the 486-based NCR
unix machine. Great stuff then! In fact, the NCR unix is just a repackaging
of the AT&T Unix.
This was about the time AT&T bought NCR. These machines were MCA-based....
Ram
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