offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

[Jules Richardson]

jd wrote:
> Jules Richardson wrote:
>> (Having said that, some ATM machines in the UK ran OS/2 for years after
>> it was a dead OS elsewhere - 
>> [snipsnip] )
>>
> 
> It's been used in some ATM's in the States, too. People have mentioned
> getting to the desktop or a shell and manipulating ATM's from there,
> somehow.

Weird. I've certainly seen at least one UK ATM fall over and break out of its 
program (this was quite a few years ago) - but I'm amazed that anyone would 
design an ATM in such a way that the keypad buttons were directly readable by 
the native OS for just that reason.

> Apparently there's nothing better on the shelf. 

I'd heard that too, but I don't know how much of it's folklore. I suspect 
these days they all just run MS Windows, and any increase in failure rate is 
seen to be cheaper to handle than trying to support a 'dead' OS.

(Although I'd expect a BSD variant to be more reliable, have a smaller 
footprint, be equal to Windows in support terms, and lend itself better to the 
embedded nature of an ATM)

Are there any vintage ATM collectors on the list? ;)

cheers

Jules