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Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet

From Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet
Date 2015-09-17 12:53 +0800
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hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:

> OS/2 is one of those sad cases of a superior technology getting lost,
> while an inferior technology becomes the standard --- people are too
> focused on having a standard, so they can be standard (woo hoo!), and they
> care nothing about quality --- in America we are supposedly all rugged
> individualists who value freedom above all else, but we are mostly just
> herd animals.
> 
...
> 
> Getting back to the subject of computers --- why was OS/2 used in ATM
> machines?

ATM machines are mostly operated by banks. The banks were used to use and 
rely on IBM equipment in mainframes and still are using it.
Another cause might be that they want an ATM machine work reliably. Would 
anybody have relied on Win 95/98 for such purpose? Possibly spewing out 
endless money because of one of the many OS bugs.

This reminds me of when I was building navigation/moving map systems for 
police helicopters. One pilot asked me why I used Linux and not Windows on 
it. I asked him if he likes the word crash, he immediately understood. :-)

-- 
Reinhardt

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Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-15 11:46 -0700
  Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet dunno <dunno@dunno.dunno> - 2015-09-15 19:39 +0000
    Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-09-15 21:46 +0200
      Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet dunno <dunno@dunno.dunno> - 2015-09-16 01:00 +0000
        Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2015-09-16 09:19 +0800
          Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-15 18:52 -0700
          Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet dunno <dunno@dunno.dunno> - 2015-09-16 02:07 +0000
            Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2015-09-16 12:44 +0800
              Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-16 15:00 -0700
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today-- TopTenzNet "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-16 23:24 +0000
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2015-09-17 12:53 +0800
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-16 22:24 -0700
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Michael Barry <barrym95838@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-16 23:06 -0700
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-16 23:32 -0700
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet Michael Barry <barrym95838@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-17 00:17 -0700
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-17 02:19 -0700
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-09-17 10:31 +0000
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-09-17 07:20 -0400
                Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet dunno <dunno@dunno.dunno> - 2015-09-17 06:36 +0000
  Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-09-15 21:50 -0400
    Re: Top 10 Horrible Outdated Technologies That Are Still Used Today -- TopTenzNet "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-09-15 22:04 -0400

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