Here's a cool story of someone using a mini Linux (not DSL) to save a company-wide bug at a fast food chain.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100520020401/http://therealedw...

The wildest part of that to me is that OP couldn't help out because there was somehow something more pressing than every non-franchise store not being able to accept payment and likely needing a lot of expertise to patch it fast enough.

	▲	foldor 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There isn't enough detail for me to know how serious is was in regards to stores not being able to accept payments, but a date of this blog being 2010, and it being written about a time when every megabyte of filesize matters makes me think it was possibly much earlier, like maybe 2001-2005. If that's the case, maybe not being able to process cards wasn't as big of a deal as it would be today because you could likely assume most if not all customers could pay with cash if card payments were down.
	▲	luz666 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I thought the same. Probably his boss first had to realize that OPs teammates needed more help.