SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY

	KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the

undersigned does hereby make, constitute and appoint the true and lawful

attorney for the undersigned and in the name, place and stead of the

undersigned and for the undersigned' use and benefit, to sign, swear to,

acknowledge, file and record, from time to time:

	   1.  All
Statement
of Changes in Beneficial Ownership of Securities on Form 4 to
be filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section
16 of the
Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the
regulations
promulgated thereunder.

	   2.  To take all such
further action which
such attorney-in-fact shall consider necessary or
convenient in connection
with the foregoing, hereby giving such
attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing whatsoever
requisite and necessary to be done and
about the foregoing as fully as the
undersigned might or could if
personally present, and hereby ratifying it
confirming all that such
attorney-in-fact shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue hereof.


	   The foregoing grant of authority is a
Special Power of
Attorney, it is irrevocable and shall survive for so long
as, in his
capacity as an Officer of MICROS Systems, Inc., the undersigned
is
required to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to

Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.


IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Special Power of

Attorney on this 16 day of May, 1991.

					 /s/  ____Thomas Paul

Armstrong____
							 Thomas Paul Armstrong

STATE OF Maryland:


				  SS:
COUNTY OF Prince Georges:

	   On this 16th day of
May,
1991, before me, a notary public in and for the State and County set
forth
above, personally appeared Thomas Paul Armstrong, who known to me
to be the
person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and
being by me
first duly sworn acknowledged that (s)he executed the same.


					 /s/
____Judith F. Wilbert____
							 (Notary Public)

						 Judith F.
Wilbert
						 My commission expires 9/7/94.

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