[Gllug] Exciting stuff (well I found it so :-)

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:20:26PM +0100, Richard Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Alain Williams wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 04:38:52PM +0100, Richard Cohen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was travelling down from Scotland last night and while wandering about
> > > > in a service station at about 3am this morning I came across a Traffic
> > > > Master update monitor.
> > > >
> > > > Someone had been fiddling with it as there was an unusual 'box' open on
> > > > the screen.
> > > >
> > > > Upon closer inspection it was a kfm version1  explorer window open.
> > >
> > > Whereas my local BP station has a little 'Internet access' point in it, and
> > > it's been showing an NT 'kernel dump' every time I've been in there since
> > > they put it in...
> >
> > AFAIK: they do run a Linux box in the back office in every station.
> 
> They certainly *used* to have an SCO box in the back - because we used it in
> marketing material.
Yes, last year they were in the process of replacing them with Linux. The bill
to upgrade several throusand SCO all over Europe with something Euro complient
was huge.

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Alain Williams

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