Comments on: Why not Embedded? ATM’s Running XP Professional… http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/why-not-embedded-atms-running-xp-professional/ Connecting Ideas Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:34:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Humming Bird http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/why-not-embedded-atms-running-xp-professional/#comment-7667 Humming Bird Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:24:01 +0000 http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/287#comment-7667 I'd love to see a pic of an ATM with Apple's Apple on the bootscreen starting up.. That would look so cool! I’d love to see a pic of an ATM with Apple’s Apple on the bootscreen starting up.. That would look so cool!

]]> By: Computer Guru http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/why-not-embedded-atms-running-xp-professional/#comment-7458 Computer Guru Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:53:46 +0000 http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/287#comment-7458 Just some background that probably proves your point, Andy. This is a machine in very high-traffic neighborhood: the university parking lot. It's the only Bank/ATM on-grounds, they paid a fortune to keep it that way, so they probably couldn't use NT4 or Windows 95 to power it for their usage needs. Of course, it would <em>still</em> be cheaper and more reliable for them to use XP Embedded, and they wouldn't suffer as many outages as a result. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the rest of Cairo Amman's ATMs are powered by NT4 as you say. Just some background that probably proves your point, Andy.

This is a machine in very high-traffic neighborhood: the university parking lot. It’s the only Bank/ATM on-grounds, they paid a fortune to keep it that way, so they probably couldn’t use NT4 or Windows 95 to power it for their usage needs. Of course, it would still be cheaper and more reliable for them to use XP Embedded, and they wouldn’t suffer as many outages as a result.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the rest of Cairo Amman’s ATMs are powered by NT4 as you say.

]]> By: Bolanski http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/why-not-embedded-atms-running-xp-professional/#comment-7442 Bolanski Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:39:57 +0000 http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/287#comment-7442 In Sweden the ATM are still running NT4 or even Win98, I think I have a pic of a ATM complaining about low virtual memory. I guess the programs running on them are very specific and also the hardware and drivers. It may be a reason why they went with XP Pro on your ATM. But embedded would probably be a better choice. /Andy In Sweden the ATM are still running NT4 or even Win98, I think I have a pic of a ATM complaining about low virtual memory. I guess the programs running on them are very specific and also the hardware and drivers. It may be a reason why they went with XP Pro on your ATM. But embedded would probably be a better choice.

/Andy

]]> By: Jeff O'Hara http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/why-not-embedded-atms-running-xp-professional/#comment-7249 Jeff O'Hara Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:42:24 +0000 http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/287#comment-7249 Hey thanks for the link, Like the pictures of from my ATM crash I was able to snap pics of last year. -Jeff O'Hara http://blog.zemote.com Hey thanks for the link, Like the pictures of from my ATM crash I was able to snap pics of last year.

-Jeff O’Hara
http://blog.zemote.com

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