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Or that much of the system ran on OS/2: https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history
by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Or that much of the system ran on OS/2:
https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history
- nycdotnet 4y agoI had not heard this part - the article implies that the systems that connect the turnstiles to the mainframes run OS/2. Pretty neat. The machines that are the topic of the article (the MetroCard machines themselves) still run Windows NT 4. Blue screen shot from 2016: https://twitter.com/nycdotnet/status/750737744356319232 https://twitter.com/nycdotnet/status/750737744356319232
- classichasclass 4y agoAnd one that bombed out to a DOS prompt: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1unxbe/in_case_you_were_wondering_it_appears_metrocard/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1unxbe/in_case_you_wer...