RE: Retail systems

["Mark Villa" <markvilla@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I should have rephrased that - IBM sells both products.
I just thought it was sweet to communicate back and forth using a OS/400
licensed product before TCP was ever on the AS/400.
True it is a cash register (the nodes are). The back end servers run
mirrored can perform all store accounting functions and reporting. All the
chains you mentioned want the data up at corporate, just like most chains.
(stating the obvious)
That level of reliability will be harder to achieve in all those chains you
mentioned with other systems "is only my guess"
IBM talk to each at the application layer without paying for that
application to be built from scratch.
I notice that Wal-Mart is sticking with that brand, I think NCR had the
other half. NCR is just as good from what I have heard, zero experience
there. But not keeping up with that market.

Not sure which models have IBM chips and which don't, I think you could load
DOS or WINDOWS on most of the cash register CPU', never actually seen that
done. I think the real operating system name was Flex/OS. I am not sure what
they call the GUI version. I think there is a windows version of that from
3rd party, but I doubt the chains are using non-IBM that have IBM POS. I
hope not, big risk in my view, not to mention part of cost likely??


Mark Villa in Charleston SC


~~~Isn't an IBM 4680 just cash register based on an Intel PC?
~~~I didn't think
~~~it had "native" integration with anything.
~~~
~~~-Jim