Paul wrote:
*Are you suggesting using physical cash because software andhardware engineers are unable to create a reliable alternative?* Absolutely yes. There are myriad reasons, in my case I have a pension paid into a UK account. Domiciled in Australia it's the best way for me to access these funds and have cash. In Australia there's a push to cashless, however, lots of businesses have suffered through similar outages and are going back to cash. EFTPOS is a cash cow for banks and network providers of ATMs. The PC would be fine if it wasn't trying to do everything and had a myriad of vulnerabilities in the registry and installation and update processes. The multitool in my toolbox does everything badly and nothing well, except for loosening the odd screw. It's a lousy hammer, wrench, knife etc. On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 10:53 AM Paul Edwards < 00000676ab6435a5-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 10:26:46 +1000, Clement Clarke <clemcla...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >Can we bring back OS/2? > > It's still available. I bought a commercial license for ArcaOS > because I was thinking of switching to it - where there is the > ability to actually report bugs and get them fixed without > being asked to pay full western contract rates for an unlimited > time. > > But I decided to switch to the ARM processor instead, and > bought a Pinebook Pro and run Windows 2000 under that. > With the expectation of weaning myself off Windows 2000 > and onto the mini-equivalent of Windows for ARM 32-bit. > Possibly literally using my Android smartphone running > PdAndro to do programming, charged with a portable solar > exclusively. > > But I don't have Hercules or equivalent running yet, so am > still using my Pinebook Pro to do mainframe work, as that > is a separate body of work. > > BFN. Paul. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
