Aloha in Squirrel Terminals

[juancruzhurtado]

Hello Everybody,

Does anybody know if Aloha can be installed in Squirrel terminals?

Thank you very much,

Juan

 

[posrescue]

Depends on the Squirel. If they are Windows terminals (XP, XP Embedded, WEPOS, POS Ready etc) then yes.

 

[juancruzhurtado]

Aparently they are Linux based terminals.
Do you think Windows can be installed in them, though?

Thanks,

Juan

 

[posrescue]

It should. You may want to make sure you have plenty a RAM. Radiant seems to like 512k of RAM but Aloha runs better with a Gig.

Make sure you can get Windows XP drivers for the terminal including the touchscreen, video, chipset, NIC... If you can, buy a new hard drive and XP for a few bucks and give it a whirl. If it doesn't work return the hard drive, tie a ribbon to the XP disk and us it as a Christmas ornament.

 

[coorsman]

They usually use an embedded linux kernel, not a real hard drive or full installed version.

Cheers,
Coorsman

 

[kpizz]

I've seen some of these systems in the past they look pretty old. I wonder if anyone knows how the files are stored on there. Do they encrypt the transactions or are they saved in a text format?

 

[coorsman]

What version. Are you talking about sales on the server. The terminals don't have any information on them at all. Squirrel 1 is a SQL database. If they are older. Then the sales
Can be exported.

Cheers,
Coorsman

 

[juancruzhurtado]

The system I am talking about is actually pretty new.
It's called Squirrel WS9L. It has a 160gb hard drive.