<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 14 Jan 2006, at 07:02, Chris Olson wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><snip><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Or how about POS terminals?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>They're not specialized vertical market.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>They're universal, and most of them run on Windows.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Where's the Mac software to do that?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>Since you ask, this page provides a snapshot:<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/mac/reviews/pos.shtml">http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/mac/reviews/pos.shtml</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am not making any comments about the features or quality of the tools listed in this review, but there are clearly quite enough to choose from for most purposes. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--Ian</DIV></BODY></HTML>