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There’s a lot of that stuff out there still. I was speaking to a former colleague a couple of years back and he discovered a NT4 box with a Hayes modem dangling
by hughrr 5y ago
There’s a lot of that stuff out there still. I was speaking to a former colleague a couple of years back and he discovered a NT4 box with a Hayes modem dangling off it doing mission critical EDI stuff in VB4 while doing a site migration. Not come across anything that old yet. Last one was a single irreplaceable VAX doing DHCP for about 200 users about ten years after it should have been in a skip.
- BeefWellington 5y agoI had a consultant buddy ask me about FoxPro last year because he knew I had done some work with it at one point. Apparently all of payroll at some largeish company you've maybe heard of (~15k employees) was done using an ancient FoxPro Windows 3.11 version (2.6? 2.7? memory's rusty) running via compatibility on Windows 7 and they were just getting around to trying to replace it. In a way people probably think things like that are insane but if you step back and look at it, if it was getting the job done all these years it was decent engineering.