On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:09, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > 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.
That was quite a few years ago now. Back in those days I was using OS/2 myself, and it was OS/2 he moved _from_. I know for certain that BankWest is running on S/390 hardware (unless its upgraded to zSeries). I did some programming work there on its new software, and I was using a PC running NT Professional and IBM's PC 3270 emulator. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ ------------------------------------------------------- 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]/
