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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is some logic to running older stuff, a lot of it is a closed system and it's harder for threats to target it. Banks are a big one that still run a ton of our financial infrastructure on COBOL.

Hospitals also run on a ton of abandon ware, same with machine shops. Ultrasound machines that are still running 95 because for the hospital to upgrade to windows 7 or 10 is millions for a few machines. So you just airgap the systems for security.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Credit to them for not wanting to move to 98 either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The good part about it is being more sustainable by using the same PCs for three decades.

Imagine banks, hospitals and so on regularly replacing their machines. That would be an ungodly amount of electronics

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, they still have parts that fail, the good news is most of its being replaced with new old stock, so not technically new stuff. I know a good number of companies that have stock piles of basically museum level hardware, to replace failing parts.