OS on ATM

In first 1980 or fisrt ATM generation, a main control of atm machine came from Zillog or mc 8088 family. And for that time, atm not need operating system for their main control. Commonly program or data embedded on the chip. Screen atm is monochrome and not to much kind of transaction can be done on atm because of limitations of storage media.

In the 90’ atm start using pc base for main controller. Start using processor series 286, atm using a hard disk for storage a data and operating system. Major operating system for this era is MS-DOS or IBM-OS2. on this time atm can show or displayed a graphical picture with low resolution. And then when Microsoft produce windows NT family. Some ATM application migrate to windows NT, which offering more advantages such security and rich multimedia capable.

And Now Commonly, Atm using microsoft windows (xp,2000.Emedded) for their operating system. Some Bank using linux or their ATM (bank on barzilia to replace old version of MS-DOS). With windows, now atm can playing a multimedia file while on Transcation or idle Time.