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[Eer0]

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easy fix: Increase the pagemem if it runs low on virtual mem
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Proper fix: work out what is causing the machine to run low on memory in the first place. Fix that problem instead

Waste of time fix: reinstall

[iamaboringperson]

I'm pretty sure most banks use or used OS/2
I remember the bank I'm with used OS/2 years ago, that was before they merged with another one, and then started using MS-Windows machines running as terminal emulators! :crazy:

[gnarly]

Xeron:
In the UK, at least HSBC, Natwest and Lloyds use Windows. I have seen crashed ATMs on maybe 4 or 5 occasions, each time with either a blue screen or windows requester.

Aye, on one occasion at a natwest machine I saw the NT4 post shutdown message "its now safe to switch off your computer", which was nice :-)

[Floid]

Poster: iamaboringperson Date: 2003/8/21 7:44:43

I'm pretty sure most banks use or used OS/2
I remember the bank I'm with used OS/2 years ago, that was before they merged with another one, and then started using MS-Windows machines running as terminal emulators!

Yeah, it used to be incredibly popular in the financial sector, and *someone* is keeping the eComStation guys afloat.  Still, it's been at least 3 years since the hearse left the building (for those mad scientists' lab), and IBM's own marketroids are pushing NT/XP derivatives on the one hand and Linux on the other, so it's done a good disappearing act in the places it'd be visible, at least for me.  (After all, the only reason it was *there* in front of the teller was because someone had a contract with IBM, and it came with a VT3270 emulator! ;-))  

I used it, I loved it in spite of its warts, it's sad to see it go... but for backend servers, *NIX is better suited anyway, and nobody gives a crap about the desktop XPerience these days.  A Linux distro standardized around one GUI toolkit (or RedHat's bizarre unification effort) really isn't much different from a user's perspective.  (Remember how much fun it was to add and remove protocols?  Or to try and use the frontend(s) for configuration of network services?  Or to finally get it speaking SMB only to realize IBM and MS disagreed on 'machine name' vs. 'ID' fields?)

[Casper]

Is interesting that it coincided with MSBlast, though. Perhaps the machine on the *other end* was taken out?

Probably not. They are much to paranoid to ever connect such systems to the internet. I read an article about the ATM system here in Sweden and they use dedicated, isolated lines between the ATMs and the central servers using the X25 protocol, so the MSBlast worm wouldn't work there.

[Cass]

@The_Editor

Well lets hope that nuclear power stations arn't running this crap !!

The "critical systems" (like nuclear power stations, life support systems etc. ) don't run ordinary hardware and software...

If you remember the installation note on OS3.5 and later, a warning on something like "not to be used on airports, nuclear power stations etc..." I firstly though that was a joke, but is a standard disclaimer.
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[DanDude]

OK!!!    :-o

Now, I demand a list of ALL the ATMs out there that are Windows-based!  I don't want Bill Gates to touch my money!!!

[amigamad]

I have seen one at a local tesco,s supermarket that had crashed. :-)