How can you use such an operating system now

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m using a Win7 machine at work, because I have to support a system that saw it’s last update in 2014. There is actually a Win10 compatible version of this software, but it only supports maybe a third of the chips of the original software, and sadly the ones we use are not among those.

    And it can get worse. I’ve got an oscilloscope that “runs” under a heavily modified version of Win98…

    • gornius@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Why you shouldn’t develop production grade software for Windows part 25.

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        1 year ago

        Just to be the devil’s advocate here, you can make the same mistake with embedded Linux.

        Any old software should not be in the network.

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      1 year ago

      Reminds me of a recording studio I used to work at which had an MS-DOS machine long after Windows XP came out because it was what we printed cassette labels on. With a dot matrix printer.