Subj : Re: MS-DOS and Win 3.11 Admin
To   : fusion
From : tenser
Date : Fri Feb 02 2024 07:43:38

On 31 Jan 2024 at 06:53p, fusion pondered and said...
 
 fu> On 31 Jan 2024, Ogg said the following...
 fu>  
 fu>  Og> Perhaps the system could be better served with a linux port- 
 fu>  Og> over.
 fu> 
 fu> lmao this is an awful idea. linux doesn't need to be on everything.

No, it doesn't.  But staying on a dead platform is also
an awful idea.  A better idea would be moving to a proper
(and properly supportable) embedded platform.

 fu> and likely the outcome would be a system that doesn't work as well,
 fu> costs a significant amount more to maintain, etc. vs one that has had
 fu> all it's bugs ironed out over 30 years.

There's a concept in software engineering called the bathtub
curve.  Actually, it's in a lot of things, but the point is
that that applies here.  The idea is that, if one charts a
system's failures over time there are a lot up front, while
bugs are worked out, then a long period of relative stability,
and then bug rates start trending up again as hardware failures
and institutional knowledge is lost and external support
channels disappear; kludges pile up to keep the system running
but that has its own cost that leads to lower reliability.

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