July 2001
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
15h 51m
English
POST stands for point-of-sale terminal. In computerese, a terminal is any endpoint device in a system, such as a client PC, a wireless networked PDA, and so forth. In earlier times, long before POSTs, a store maintained a register—a book that logged sales and payments. Eventually, this was automated in a mechanical “cash register.” Today, a POST fulfills the role of the register (see Figure 10.6).

A register is a thing that records sales and payments, but so is a POST. However, the term register seems somewhat more abstract ...
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