[UFO Chicago] Jewel/Albertson's uses Fedora Linux, but....

[Jordan Bettis]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:32:08AM -0700, Jesse Becker wrote:
> 
> --- Brian Sobolak <brian at planetshwoop.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > So I went to Jewel at midnight to pickup tofu, ginger,
> > and ramen and 
> > while browsing through the produce section I snapped this
> > shot:
> > 
> > <http://www.planetshwoop.com/kernelpanic.jpg>
> 
> Barnes and Noble used to a terminal-serverish version of
> Linux on it's registers.  This was waaay back in the late
> 90's too.  No clue what they are running now
> 

I read something by a programmer at Epicor (I think). It was a POS
company and their website suggests they produce POS "solutions" (puke)
so it must be them.

At any rate, he was saying that they used to have this DOS-based PPP
(or something) app that the manager had to dial in every night to
upload the information from the registers. They switched to (depending
on their product line) a Linux based or a Cygwin on Windows based UUCP
system that would dial-in to a Unix server at the central office.

The UUCP system was much easier and more robust because calling could
be scheduled upon installation and also had sensible redial and
queuing.

Long live UUCP.

-- 
Jordan Bettis -- Chicago Il.
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