[BBC-Micro] Risc PC (Was 'Minitel in France')

Joel Rowbottom joel at jml.net
Tue Jul 26 11:11:39 BST 2011


--On 25 July 2011 20:18:36 -0500 Jules Richardson 
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's not running SSA software under the covers, is it? :-)
> "screen-scraping" of the AS/400 terminals which were normally used to
> access their suite of apps used to be commonplace during the 90s; porting
> the actual code to something else was either too expensive, too
> complicated, or too risky - or some combination of the three.

*shudder* Using Reflection at Barclays to screen-scrape for their pension 
system, probably explains a lot of the events of the past couple of years ;)



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