18 Dec
2001
18 Dec
'01
12:31 p.m.
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
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18 Dec
18 Dec
12:44 p.m.
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....
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19 Dec
19 Dec
1:13 p.m.
> 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.
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
Wow! This reminds me of a machine i've got sitting in storage for me in
scotland - must remember to collect it sometime... Apparently it's a
4-way 486 SMP box with passive backplane, which ran NCR UNIX. Came out
of bank though, hard disks had to be physically trashed - the whole 2
cabinets of SCSI disks all were put thru with a hammer...
7:05 p.m.
--- Alex White <meltlet(a)fastmail.fm> wrote:
Wow! This reminds me of a machine i've got sitting
in storage for me in
scotland - must remember to collect it sometime... Apparently it's a
4-way 486 SMP box with passive backplane, which ran NCR UNIX. Came out
of bank though, hard disks had to be physically trashed - the whole 2
cabinets of SCSI disks all were put thru with a hammer...
We used machines like this at Lucent (since AT&T owned NCR at one time).
I was the Solaris dude, so I didn't get into them much, but they were
largish (larger than a VAX-11/750, anyway) with differential SCSI,
MicroChannel for the older boxes, PCI for the newer ones, typically
4-way Pentia in the models we had, but slow - 4xP-90 in one case, for
example. If someone blurted out a model number, I might recognize it,
but I can't recall what we used; as I said, I didn't take care of them;
I just walked past them to the aisles of SPARCserver 5000s and 3000s
I _did_ take care of.
Our group stopped buying them as soon as the suits stopped making us.
-ethan
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