Reminds me of a admin/support story from a university i ran into. Apparently one day the person was called on to look at a computer over at the physics departm

Reminds me of a admin/support story from a university i ran into. Apparently one day the person was called on to look at a computer over at the physics department. When he got there, he found it to be a 486 running DOS hooked up to some particle sensor or other. The reason it had not been replaced, beyond the cost and the year needed to ensure that the new sensor gave comparable results to the old one, was that DOS gave them direct access to the hardware, while Windows had too many layers of indirection.