Subj : Re: MS-DOS and Win 3.11 Admin
To   : Ogg
From : paulie420
Date : Wed Jan 31 2024 19:00:40

 Og> But.. I suppose if those dashboards are not connected to the  
 Og> internet and independent, then what's the harm in sticking with  
 Og> Win3.11.  However.. the hardware would surely be hard to  
 Og> maintain for too long as ram and capacitors blow out, etc.

While I have no idea about this rail, many commercial MS-DOS/Win 3.11 applications run hardware that you can still purchase new today. What is it, the PC-100 board - or something-100... you can still buy 486, Pentium, etc. single board computers today that aren't old consumer grade hardware.

I would bet [hope] that they have new replacements for machines that they run - most of the time the actual reason they don't port over to some current OS is the SOFTWARE; it's not just converting .bat files to .sh scripts, but some large software that was bought and paid for decades ago... and they don't want to INVEST to update that code.

At any rate, I'd look at one of these jobs if my knowledge sufficed and it paid a decent salary; I'm happy that MS-DOS / Win 3.11 lives on today so long as the infrastructure it runs isn't hampered by the shortcomings of the OS'.



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