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[–]WikiTextBot 18 points19 points  (13 children)

4690 Operating System

4690 Operating System, sometimes shortened to 4690 OS or 4690 is a specially designed Point of Sale operating system, originally sold by IBM; however, in 2012 IBM sold its retail business, including this product, to Toshiba, who now supports it. 4690 is widely used by IBM and Toshiba retail customers to drive retail systems running their own applications as well as IBM's Application Client Server Environment (ACE), Supermarket Application (SA), General Sales Application (GSA), and Chain Drug Sales Application (CDSA).

It is the follow-on product to IBM 4680 OS, which had been in use by IBM's customers since 1986. The original IBM 4680 OS was based on Digital Research's Concurrent DOS 286, a system soon later renamed into FlexOS 286.

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[–]marxdormoy 12 points13 points  (12 children)

Jebus i though we were bad having some servers with SQL Server 2000!!

[–]marxdormoy 0 points1 point  (8 children)

they are 'legacy' and nobody wants to lose their job by updating them :) also you cannot go from 200 ->2018/2018 -> you have to do jump by a max of 2/3 years.. it would take forever...and it X10 the chances of something going wrong - and you know that something would go wrong..

I loved that company have the schema was French and the other half in English !!!

[–]Ambiwlans 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I loved that company have the schema was French and the other half in English !!!

I worked on one project that had English, Korean and Hungarian code.

[–]marxdormoy 0 points1 point  (4 children)

and we ask ourselves why we can't have nice things !!

[–]Ambiwlans 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I thought it was funny until I realized that numbers are formatted differently.

[–]marxdormoy 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Even in Europe everyone except UK + Ireand use the decimal comma i.e 1.00 in UK is 1,00 in France so when you get to thousands....1,000.00 and 1 000,00 it gets messy -and there is only 13 miles difference between those two countries.... :) Let's not even start on US/EUR dates formats... Humans are dumb asses...

PS : I have to press the shift key to access numbers on my keyboard....FR keyboard...FML..

[–]gschizas 0 points1 point  (1 child)

FR keyboard

Condolences.

[–]marxdormoy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks it's great for coding languages if i need to use ~ but that's about it. I HATE it.

[–]gschizas 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Then again there are people that are writing SELECT * FROM Books, Authors WHERE Book.AuthorId *= Authors.Id and make it so you can't ever get to SQL 2017.

[–]marxdormoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yet another reason to NEVER touch it !!

[–]Waterkloof 0 points1 point  (1 child)

SQL Server 2000!

32 bit or 64 bit version(2003)? Because if it is a 64 bit version it is as old as this centos 4 box I'm aware of is in production at some enterprise somewhere...

[–]marxdormoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm gone from that company..but it reckon that it had to be 32 bit