• vrek@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    I work in a field that is considered by many high tech. I have personally seen a system in use today that duel boots windows 2000 and windows 98.

    The product it’s used by is old generations and the system does not have any network access but still must be supported by government regulation for several more years…

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      11 months ago

      Yeah there’s a lot of MRI machines out there where the brains are running windows 98

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        11 months ago

        I think it was 2017 we got rid of our last system running freedos in a console since the original program required do to operate…

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      11 months ago

      “Duel boots” lol… now I’m imagining a sword fight going on in the BIOS

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      11 months ago

      Few years ago there was a story in a local paper about building automation systems running on Commadore 64 and still doing fine. Build by some company in the 80’s. They weren’t online, so no security issues.

      Tried to find the article online but no luck. It would have been in local language anyway.