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Here's a cool story of someone using a mini Linux (not DSL) to save a company-wide bug at a fast food chain. https://web.archive.org/web/20100520020401/http://

• hansvm 10mo ago
  The wildest part of that to me is that OP couldn't help out because there was somehow something more pressing than every non-franchise store not being able to accept payment and likely needing a lot of expertise to patch it fast enough.
  • luz666 10mo ago
    I thought the same. Probably his boss first had to realize that OPs teammates needed more help.
  • foldor 10mo ago
    There isn't enough detail for me to know how serious is was in regards to stores not being able to accept payments, but a date of this blog being 2010, and it being written about a time when every megabyte of filesize matters makes me think it was possibly much earlier, like maybe 2001-2005. If that's the case, maybe not being able to process cards wasn't as big of a deal as it would be today because you could likely assume most if not all customers could pay with cash if card payments were down.