> The mind boggles at using it in a mission-critical environment and speaks to how dire and ridiculous the situation was in the late 90s due to Microsoft shenan

> The mind boggles at using it in a mission-critical environment and speaks to how dire and ridiculous the situation was in the late 90s due to Microsoft shenanigans and competitor blunders. Or due to the fact that Win95 was actually a very good user-friendly graphical operating system. There were very few that could really compete. Despite all the shenanigans. > Depending on budget one of these paths should be taken: You just mentioned mission-critical systems in the previous paragraph. None of the paths are valid upgrade paths. Especially not if you want to "whip up a native GUI with a requirement for un unmaintained driver". Just reverse-engineering the driver for a train would be a major undertaking. And that's before you try to add an UI on top of that.