Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Business Software Advice? (New Business) Message-ID: <1991May19.122353.19289@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 19 May 91 12:23:53 GMT References: <25400@know.pws.bull.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 14 In article <25400@know.pws.bull.com> ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes: > I've "visited" one party supply store that was using IBM > computers for point-of-sales. They were touch screen and very colorful/GUI > intensive. ... Does anything like this exist for the Amiga? I don't think so. There isn't that much for the Mac either. Basically, this is the sort of embedded control application you'd have been using an 8080 based dedicated machine for a few years ago, and it really doesn't need more than that. It's not an application for a general purpose machine. Given this, why not just get the cheapest machine you can find (an IBM PC/XT level box: anything more would be wasted) and stick it there? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .