Meerschaum: I've seen tons of kiosks crash running scala and amigas...the amiga was not a system built for solidly running things that Scala wanted...
OK, to get somewhat off topic:
I use a lot of kiosk machines at work, based on all sorts of hardware and software, including WinNT, MacOS, Solaris, and Win2K. The Win2K machine is the only one that NEVER crashes. The machines I use at work suck raw sewage. But, Win2K definately sucks the least.
The Solaris machine isn't too bad as far as crashing is concerned, but it is so damn slow! Win2K is the only system that multitasks properly, too. The Sun system chokes and screws up prints if you try to multitask, much like old unbuffered CD Burners. And since it's a kiosk, customers always try to start a new order before the old one is printed, and we get lots of waste prints. I never thought I'd drool over a Celeron 500 with an ATA33 hard drive -- until I got to work on that Sun workstation. :-P
I remeber seeing an Amiga 500 kiosk in a paint store. it was used to show what houses looked like with different color schemes. It didn't crash when I used it, though. ;-)
