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How many point-of-sale systems have you seen that run on Windows 3.1 or old curses-ish UIs? I'm sure it's even more common out of public view: in airport ticket

How many point-of-sale systems have you seen that run on Windows 3.1 or old curses-ish UIs? I'm sure it's even more common out of public view: in airport ticket kiosks, warehouse inventory systems, and the like. I saw my share of anachronistic systems working for a Midwestern public library system. Legacy code hell doesn't just apply to codebases.

ugh 16y ago
ATMs!
mahmud 16y ago
LOL @curses; those are Borland BGI and Turbo Graphics, man. To run curses at that time, you needed a 25k Sun Workstation.
- nitrogen 16y ago
  Some of them probably were curses-based, running on a central server feeding a dozen Wyse terminals around the building.