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The Death of Windows XP Won’t Kill the ATM Industry, or Help Bitcoin

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CoinDesk; By Nermin Hajdarbegovic 		Mail this story
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This is not as farfetched as it sounds: Linux has a much smaller footprint than Windows 7 and, as a result, some ATM operators are considering a switch to Linux rather than the Microsoft product. This would not be the first time ATMs have transitioned to a different OS. Before the industry moved to XP, most ATM’s were running IBM’s OS/2 operating system.

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