[NCLUG] a little factoid to brighten your day

[Mike Loseke]

Thus spake Daniel Miles:
> 
> Ok, so maybe it wasn't RH but it *was* some form of *nix and that made
> me happy. :)

 Last I heard, the infamous DIA baggage handling system was still using
OS/2. At least that's not what you saw. :)


> On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 08:59, Mike Loseke wrote:
> > Thus spake listz at hate.cx:
> > > 
> > > iirc novell does that too.
> > 
> >  As does HP-UX. Maybe slightly different syntax/format but at a glance it
> > looks the same.
> > 
> > > on Thu Aug 14 22:02, Daniel Miles disclosed: 
> > > > About 4 days ago I took an early morning flight to Seattle and since it
> > > > was early in the morning, they didn't have all their security stations
> > > > up and running yet, a few were still turned off...
> > > > 
> > > > However, while I was waiting in line, they booted up another station
> > > > (for those of you not familiar, it's a thing that scans your
> > > > carry-on-luggage and has a metal detector that you walk through) and it
> > > > looked like the standard RH boot process...
> > > > 
> > > > Starting this service....			[  OK  ]
> > > > Starting that service....			[  OK  ]
> > > > 
> > > > You all know what I'm talking about.
> > > > 
> > > > Summary: I think the airport security stations at DIA (and possibly
> > > > everywhere since they all look like the same equipment) run Linux.


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