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Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers (www.bbc.com)

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[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Go into an average US factory and see how much still runs on 95-Vista

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

The places I've seen in my area from various jobs, including IT and network installation sometimes still ran on an OS that pre-dates fucking DOS for their machinery. 😳