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Many of those photos show real time connections / schedules for trains of the Deutsche Bahn. I'm wondering ... does this mean they have a dedicated OS installa

• germanier 9y ago
  Yes, they have. How would you do it otherwise? At some point you need to render all those different tables. Using off-the-shelf comments is probably the most efficient system imaginable. If you think DB is utterly incompetent you should take some trains in most other countries. I know it's a popular sport to bitch and moan about them (I do it as well) but seriously, the system works surprisingly well. Those displays are also some secondary info screens that were added later and are not part of the core system and thus probably don't receive the same attention as other more important things.
  • joyofdata 9y ago
    > Yes, they have. How would you do it otherwise? How about a thin client based on Linux receiving the raw data wireless and then simply displaying it formatted as a table? And if that doesn't exist yet then have Siemens design a solution of that kind.