Their POS is probably running an *NIX system of some kind... when I worked at Radio Shack our backend computer took over 5 minutes to start up and almost 30 minutes to shut down. Lots of drivers, connections and sockets to load on an old P90.
Hatton Raymond Camden wrote: > So - the wife, rugrat and I go to Sonic yesterday at high noon and get > turned away because... the computers are down and it's going to take 15+ > minutes to get them back. This makes me wonder... > > 1) Why these people can't use a calculator, or lord forbid, simple > freaking preschool mathematics to figure out our total? I understand if > they need to track the orders, but it's noon - the busiest time of the > year. Deal with it. > > 2) What kind of computers are they using that would take that long to > reboot and start up? Heck, even Win95 on a slow system would be up and > running in 4 minutes at most. > > Am I crazy... or was I just being cranky because I was hungry?? > > -rc > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
