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Am I the only one to whom the phrases "windows XP" and "trains" in the same sentence makes your blood chill a little? Also -- what about virtualizing the OS wit
by azalemeth 5y ago
Am I the only one to whom the phrases "windows XP" and "trains" in the same sentence makes your blood chill a little? Also -- what about virtualizing the OS with pcie passthrough and being able to regularly snapshot it / migrate as running to other hosts (if they have enough odd cards, etc)
- okl 5y agoI once worked on a project migrating a central component used on trains from Windows 95 to Windows XP... this year.
- bluGill 5y agoXP had a solid base in NT. If you don't use the desktop it is very solid. I wouldn't connect it to the internet, but I wouldn't do that anyway .
- kotaKat 5y agoI know of a hospital still running a Meditech MAGIC system for historical data purposes. The system is a collection of IBM servers, all running Windows Server 2000. Meditech, however, uses its own network stack on the OS, replacing all Windows networking components with a Meditech MAGIC driver, and Meditech's own software then controls TCP/IP inside its emulation that runs on top of 2000 in usermode. It's amazing how well put together the stack is that this could be (fairly easily) migrated up to a Server 2012-era box* and still work the exact same way. *(that I know of - I assume they have newer support by now)
- zrail 5y agoTo this day there are probably thousands to tens of thousands of SCADA and other industrial control systems around the world running on XP. It's an incredibly stable system when configured properly.