Windows to Power ATM's in 2005

[bob at xa.net (Bob Keyes)]

You might think that ATMs are not on the Internet. IN fact, they often are
on some sort of unsecured network which is directly or indirectly
connected to the Internet. And don't forget that our beloved Internet is
not the only network, I know that, at least in the past, the X.25
networks handled a lot of this traffic. . I have seen ATMs connected to
bank LANs, modems, and have heard of them using DSL.

I tend not to believe this story about switching to Microsoft. Do you
really think IBM would do that? More likely they would switch to Linux.
Not sure what NCR would do but they have had a big Unix commitment in the
past. Fujitsu? the smaller guys? yes they may do the switch to MS.

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Kyle Plummer wrote:

> I would agree if it wasn't for the fact most bank branches and ATMs are on
> Peer to Peer networks.  So the possiblity of hacking is mute.  IBM had
> annouced some time ago that they were no longer providing further support
> after the last update of OS/2.  Althought the comment about Windows being
> "open" is funny.  There are only two US companies that produce ATMs.  One
> was owned by IBM (Diebold), and the other AT&T (NCR).
>