Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: android Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Netrenderer.com to emulate Internet Explorer on a Mac Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:51:16 +0100 Organization: the center Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <2015011307565647215-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> <130120151107098800%nospam@nospam.invalid> <2015011310505242067-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> <130120151352233643%nospam@nospam.invalid> <140120150850125673%YourName@YourISP.com> <140120150939554668%YourName@YourISP.com> <140120151328101974%YourName@YourISP.com> <140120151811509520%YourName@YourISP.com> <140120151251217861%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Trace: individual.net XsP8tqirDvr9ssyi9cl0sgPchI2nazNSr9zA488LWyisPTcJk6 X-Orig-Path: here Cancel-Lock: sha1:ld/d2igt5zZKyjVSINGZFjun2dQ= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:68426 In article <140120151251217861%nospam@nospam.invalid>, nospam wrote: > In article , android > wrote: > > > > > > > >> There was an OS with the acronym POS. > > > > > > >> It's gone now. Was it the > > > > > > >> acronym or Harry Potter? I don't know! Too bad never the less > > > > > > >> since I kinda liked it... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > POS = Point Of Sale, it's a cash register software in a shop. > > > > > > > > > > > > That ain't an OS! :-p > > > > > > > > > > It is if you have a purpose-made cash register system, rather than > > > > > just > > > > > running software on a standard computer. > > > > > > > > That would make it a term and not a specific software designed to run > > > > programs on a computer. > > > > http://tinyurl.com/7b28o8m > > > > > > In ye olde days some electronics companies made specific cash registers > > > with proprietary POS software on them, similar to how a DVD or VHS > > > player has in-built software. :-\ > > > > Still a term. The correct answer is: The Palm Operating System! > > that was called palm os or web os. that you say... whatever. for those who have forgotten it: http://www.osnews.com/story/26838/Palm_I_m_ready_to_wallow_now/page1/ i used my device 'til i worn it out... -- teleportation kills