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If you've walked into a bank, hospital, or anywhere using a PoS system, you've interacted with legacy software--in some cases, literally jury-rigged DOS softwar
by colatkinson 7y ago
If you've walked into a bank, hospital, or anywhere using a PoS system, you've interacted with legacy software--in some cases, literally jury-rigged DOS software. Outside of trendy dev circles, legacy software is the name of the game.
- boring_twenties 7y agoOK, banks, hospitals. You forgot SCADA systems. How on earth do you leap from these to not only all business, but all humans?
- chungus_khan 7y agoNearly all retail and food service businesses in the west operate POS systems. Very few of those run anything more than Windows XP, and a huge number run DOS or OS/2.
- boring_twenties 7y agoI'd think emulators would make short work of those, especially the DOS ones.