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No, it is fully as terrible as can be imagined, if true. But I have doubts.
by ncmncm 4y ago
No, it is fully as terrible as can be imagined, if true. But I have doubts.
- mlyle 4y agoIt turns out it's untrue, after reading other sources. Instead, they had to resurrect a Windows 98 development environment to patch the software running on the DSPs. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/mars-probe-gets-windows-98-update https://www.tomshardware.com/news/mars-probe-gets-windows-98... I was a little credulous reading some of the poorer quality sources reporting this. On the other hand, I've reluctantly deployed DOS and pre-Windows-NT embedded systems to run various instruments. (I've gotten away with running Wine and box86 on little ARM SBCs sometimes, but at the cost of having even less support from the hardware and software developers). Running an ancient OS in a small environment embedded can easily be the "least evil" thing.