Re: Retail Terminal with NO Windows -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Retail Terminal with NO Windows
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:11:35 -0700
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Okay, so you're suggesting connecting the magnetic stripe reader
directly to an IBM i Power Server? Can't trust any OS on the
front-end? What sort of UI requirements might a POS terminal
support?

That's going to be a LOT of very LONG cables running to a really big
USB hub wherever the IBM box resides.

Or, a whole lotta IBM I boxes at the checkout lanes. Actually, I
like that idea <grin>.

Hmm. Or you could have a fully isolated intranet confined to its own LAN. The modern equivalent of good old fashioned Twinax.

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JHHL

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