[News] Pegasos to target different markets | ANN.lu |
Posted on 15-Aug-2002 13:03 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 51 comments View flat View list |
Here is a message from Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco on MorphOS-news.de explaining how Thendic will use the Pegasos and MorphOS with smart card readers to provide secure money transactions and other applications.
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Pegasos to target different markets : Comment 27 of 51 | ANN.lu |
Posted by gary_c on 15-Aug-2002 23:26 GMT | In reply to Comment 22 (Marcus Sundman): > > > This is the primary POS device that we sell.
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> >> LOL. "POS" usually means "piece of shit". :-)
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> >I don't know what kind of people you're hanging out with... But
> >"POS" is usually an abbrevation for "POINT OF SALE"!
>I "hang out with" people in chat rooms and web forums, such as this one, and I have never seen POS been used as "point of sale", but I have seen it used as "piece of shit" a lot (often describing products, e.g. "micro$oft's POS installer").
POS has been an established abbreviation for "Point of Sale" but is used mostly in the retailing industry and industries that supply retailing software and hardware, etc. For example, software that tracks store inventory and is linked to the cash registers (the "point of sale") to get realtime updates, probably also feeding the info online to store suppliers. Here in Japan the convenience stores have it down to a science, as they sell a lot of bento lunches and other freshly prepared food. When cultures collide we might hear about "POS POS devices" but I haven't seen that yet. Hopefully bPlan/Thendic can avoid that description. :-)
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