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[–] Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (18 children)

Having worked in tech fields, legacy devices as old as 20 years can pop up occasionally, functioning or not. Once was told a story where this tech was hired to fix a highschool bell system and the whole thing was running on windows 98. This took place in 2015 or so

[–] vrek@programming.dev 14 points 11 months ago (11 children)

I work in a field that is considered by many high tech. I have personally seen a system in use today that duel boots windows 2000 and windows 98.

The product it's used by is old generations and the system does not have any network access but still must be supported by government regulation for several more years....

[–] Toes@ani.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah there's a lot of MRI machines out there where the brains are running windows 98

[–] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

I think it was 2017 we got rid of our last system running freedos in a console since the original program required do to operate...

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