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A lot of industrial machinery is just $x00,000 of equipment strapped to a windows pc. Hell, a lot of it is strapped to a version long EOL
by Redoubts 2y ago
A lot of industrial machinery is just $x00,000 of equipment strapped to a windows pc. Hell, a lot of it is strapped to a version long EOL
- porkbeer 2y agoCan confirm this is the norm in machine shops. I encounter systems running dos, 3.1, 95, 2k and mostly XP constantly. I rather prefer the old dos systems of the obsolete stuff. Less variables. It is easier and more reliable to freeze the tech in time than it is to manage updates.
- anon_cow1111 2y agoMy last CNC job was just a 98 pc that dropped into dos to load programs, this must have been right around when win10 came out. Sneakernet and floppies made it secure enough, but the main network where all the orders were handled was... terminal based.