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It's much more common to find businesses running on very old hardware in developed countries, not in developing ones. Developing nations basically didn't use co
by tsimionescu 1y ago
It's much more common to find businesses running on very old hardware in developed countries, not in developing ones. Developing nations basically didn't use computers 20-30 years ago, there's no random remnants from that era beyond some extreme tail end. And, given how the PC & server market evolved in the 2000s and 2010s, it was cheaper to buy a then-current x86 than to import some ancient Alpha system from wherever. Especially so since software licenses didn't really exist in those days in developing countries - even government institutions often ran pirated software without a second thought.
- baobun 1y agoAre you speaking from experience? There's a non-negligble amount of "handed-down" refurbished hardware from developed to developing. PCs and servers that are already 5+yo and out of market at installation.
- tsimionescu 1y agoI'm sure that's true for 5-10 year old tech, as the market has changed significantly. But I'd bet you'll be very hard pressed to find any businesses running on Alpha or HP-PA or whatever other ancient architectures might not have a Rust compiler available. Especially so if you were to look for businesses running modern Debian on such systems...