On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:08:50PM -0400, Keith Mastin wrote: > >I am using lynx and links, and I think for bookkeeping the text is better , > >I think accountants like to wrok with text based browsers, all banks have > >terminals that are text based , they rarly use graphics (excpet for the > >signature) > > Yeah. but how do we get the pretty blue curses screen that the banks get > to play on? :)
The "Big Four" banks in Australia have pretty much changed over to Windows PCs instead of terminals because <sarcasm> ActiveX enabled Internet Explorer and Outlook is *soooo* much more secure </sarcasm>. I believe most of them still use mainframe computers for their backends, although the (former) IT Manager of the Commonwealth Bank was sacked for migrating the bank to Win NT servers. -- Steven D'Aprano Operations Manager Cybersource Pty Ltd, ACN 053 904 082 Level 9, 140 Queen St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Tel: +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 96425998 Web: http://www.cyber.com.au ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------- (un)subscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sql-ledger-users Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
