2 Feb
2007
2 Feb
'07
10:45 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: OS/2 stillborn, was Re: TRS-80 Model 1, etc
Richard wrote:
IBM
Why the hell does supermarket checkout need a
real-time OS?
Give me a break.
I suppose the requirements were for something reliable, low-cost, and
networkable; at the time there probably weren't many choices and no doubt sold them some big back-end to manage the thing...
Quite a few checkout machines I see are character based (DOS maybe), so I
would think they keep using OS/2 because it works well with DOS and the
system probably would need rewritten if you used another OS (why spend the
money if what you have works).