[Gllug] new railtrack screens

[Xander D Harkness]

Matt Amos wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 07:53:57AM -0500, SteveC wrote:
> 
>>Run NT... I saw a couple booting at Birmingham yesterday. The screens are 
>>side on, to make them tall. I hope that doesn't mean they have one NT box 
>>per screen...
>>
> 
> theyre hardly new, theyve been at paddington and reading stations for at 
> least 9 months now... 
> 
> i cant beleive theyd have one box per screen because they queue, ie: the 
> leftmost screen usually holds the next train to go, when it goes the 
> screens all shuffle along... it would be *horrible* to do that using 
> separate boxes!
> 
> they also have similar screens on the platforms and summary screens 
> elsewhere in the station... there must be about 30-40 screens at 
> reading... imagine 30-40 screen licenses for NT <shudder>
> 

Hey maybe M$ will again change their licences and instead of charging 
for people who authenticate against a system will view passengers as 
users and demand an annual licence fee per anticipated rail passenger.

Scary thing as you could almost hear them saying it.

Cheers
Xander


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