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RM6000 Hardware Requirements

Front Office - Point of Sale
  • PosXpress3 till systems can operate with a range of specialist Point of Sale equipment, or with a conventional PC. PosXpress3 can operate with POS equipment from ICL, IBM, Epson, NCR (including the DynaKey system), ABS, Casio and Alphameric. A fiscalised version is also available with EPSON Printer equipment. POs equipment and conventional PC systems include within the configuration; processor, customer display, cash drawer, receipt printer, customised keyboard, card readers and bar code scanners. Windows PosXpress3 can be configured to operate with either Windows peripheral drivers, or OPOS drivers.

  • POSXpress3 Windows tilling software should be used on a minimum of a 500MHz Processor with 128MB of RAM (higher RAM required with Windows2000 / XP).  NB: Processor speeds are based upon Intel Pentium processors.

Back Office Systems

Conventional PC equipment is used by RM6000 software. The choice of File servers depends upon the size of the database and the networking software in use. It is recommended that PC equipment running Microsoft Windows and RM6000 should be at least 500MHz, or above in performance and have a minimum of 64MB RAM (higher RAM required with Windows2000).                    

NB: Processor speeds are based upon Intel Pentium processors.

Operating System Software

RM6000 operates with either Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 or XP . PC equipment configurations will vary dependent upon the chosen operating system.

Local Area Networking Systems

RM6000 operates with Windows NT / 2000 Server and Windows Peer to Peer networking systems as well as Novell networks.

DataBase Servers

The Client / Server architecture of RM6000 enables the database to be either loaded on the File Server, or an independent Windows NT / 2000 Server can be used specifically to locate the Database.  Database servers should be a minimum of 800MHz with 512 MB RAM. RM6000 & Sybase will operate on Dual Processor Server equipment. Sybase performance is enhanced with high Cache memory (512MB+) being available.

NB: Processor speeds are based upon Intel Pentium performance.

Wide Area Communications

Connection between remote locations within an organisation can be achieved by floppy disk for use where telephone communications are unreliable, Dial-up telephone lines, X25 ISDN services or Internet connection.

Hand Held Terminals

Programs exist for the PSION WorkAbout and HC range are fully supported.  Any Hand Held device can be used via the CSV transfer options within RM6000.

Thermal Label Printers

Thermal label printers with Windows drivers are supported.

 

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