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1. nineteen999 · 1790669756 · focus · HN ↗

   We use to run Stratus VOS on Continuum series hardware at a lottery/poker machine company I worked at in the mid 2000's. It handled the jackpot system which decided which of 13,500 poker machines in our state would jackpot at any given time.

   A reliable beast - never failed once in the entire time I worked there. Based on PA-RISC if I recall correctly.

   1. zorked · 1790678891 · focus · HN ↗

      The poker machines are connected? Why wouldn't they just jackpot locally and indepdendently?

      1. nineteen999 · 1790824679 · focus · HN ↗

         toast0's answer below is the correct one. Plus in Australia, gaming/gambling is heavily regulated - my state government didn't even allow poker machines until 1991.

         So we never started with a network of disconnected poker machines, the whole thing was built from the ground up with a centralised jackpot system. I don't know what hardware the original jackpot platform ran on but I know it used hardware RNG units. By the time I started there ~2003 it had been migrated to Stratus.

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