last time I was in a 300mm fab I definitely saw OS/2, command lines being used by technicians, and a LOT of windows embedded 3.1. The main defense is a compute

last time I was in a 300mm fab I definitely saw OS/2, command lines being used by technicians, and a LOT of windows embedded 3.1. The main defense is a computer at the entrance where technicians are supposed to scan their USB drives. It's a devils choice really...do you put the tools on an externally accessible network? If not how do engineers get data off of tools? how does the factory talk to itself and schedule things? I don't envy FAB IT. Utterly thankless.