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When you have government representatives that don't understand technology, it doesn't get funded. It's no wonder everything is emulated/old/never-replaced.
by richwater 5y ago
When you have government representatives that don't understand technology, it doesn't get funded.
It's no wonder everything is emulated/old/never-replaced.
- h0l0cube 5y agoIn defense of government, they need to have an audit trail and (in functioning democracies) can be held accountable when things go seriously wrong, so it means they only have a select few orgs to choose from that have passed all the certifications/due diligence. Connex (the company running the show at the time) were a private operator who has lease of the rail system for probably long enough to justify modernizing some of the systems, but maybe not enough to justify a full rewrite. Rewrites of systems with big safety implications, like civil transport, would have a different risk profile to upgrades of less consequential legacy systems Edit: Apparently it did eventually get replaced https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29158255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29158255