Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:08:50PM -0400, Keith Mastin wrote:
> > >I am using lynx and links, and I think for bookkeeping the text is better ,
> > >I think accountants like to wrok with text based browsers, all banks have
> > >terminals that are text based , they rarly use graphics (excpet for the
> > >signature)
> >
> > Yeah. but how do we get the pretty blue curses screen that the banks get
> > to play on? :)
>
> The "Big Four" banks in Australia have pretty much changed over to Windows
> PCs instead of terminals because <sarcasm> ActiveX enabled Internet
> Explorer and Outlook is *soooo* much more secure </sarcasm>. I believe
> most of them still use mainframe computers for their backends, although
> the (former) IT Manager of the Commonwealth Bank was sacked for migrating
> the bank to Win NT servers.
>
The bank that I use here in the US recently switched to some sort of IBM
computers. I do not know if the GUI is Linux or an IBM *nix of some
sort. It is pretty neat, though. The bank teller isn't even behind a
counter anymore; she/he stands right next to the customer. The teller
doesn't have a money drawer either. Your money comes out of a machine
like the ATM on the outside of the bank. Really hard to rob that bank,
apparently.
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jamess
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