On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:38:11AM -0500, Mike Hicks wrote: > Well, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the ATMs are running really > old 8086 chips. Think about how long some of those machines have been > sitting in that same spot. They might have less than a megabyte of > memory. Linux can't quite fit into that.. > > Of course, I guess most ATMs have been upgraded to have color displays > now, so maybe they're better off than I think. I just know that I've > seen one or two machines with their covers removed, and I saw 5 1/4" > floppy drives.. Actually, most ATMs in the US run OS/2 [1], so I doubt that they are running 8088s. 1. http://www.atmmarketplace.com/research.htm?article_id=10811&pavilion=29&step=story -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org