3 Feb
2007
3 Feb
'07
4:45 a.m.
Josef Chessor wrote:
On 2/2/07, Bryan Pope <bpope at wordstock.com>
wrote:
Part of the reason they're not terribly responsive is that they need to
look up practically everything in the store controller. The IBM ones
contain a 4800-series EPOS machine, with a 1GHz PIII in iirc. No excuse
for them to be slow, but the store controllers are very low-end Pentia
and are driving all the database stuff for *every till in the store*...
When you reboot a 4690-type till, they netboot off the store controller.
Lunchtime on a Saturday, this goes *very* slowly.
Gordon
Which one? All the self-checkout lines I have seen are running
Windows :-(.. I could tell by the Windows lock screen on the
out-of-order systems. Why oh why couldn't an OS be used that is
actually real-time and more responsive?!
Ours down here in Texas (at H-E-B) run Linux, netbooting to an X
server at 640x480 or a similar res. They aren't responsive worth a
hoot, but they are very stable. Until the paper runs out of the
reciept printer, that is. ;-)