OT - IBM 46xx cash registers - was - Re: [TriLUG] New list member here

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 16:16, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> 
> I don't know much about the graphics code that displays the information
> on the screen.   I agree that the display looks like fvwm, but the
> underlying FlexOS operating system is not a Unix-based OS.  It could
> be that it was convenient enough for IBM to port the code from fvwm
> and X to FlexOS; however I don't see any evidence on the Web that
> these programs run natively on FlexOS. 

Upon further web searching, I found some sales literature that lists
this functionality as, "a Java-based graphical user interface (GUI) for
the customer display."

Guess that makes sense to use Java.  So someone ported a JVM (as well as
a VGA driver) to FlexOS.  :-)

--Jeremy

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