Subj : Re: MS-DOS and Win 3.11 Admin
To   : Ogg
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Feb 02 2024 06:43:00

-=> Ogg wrote to Warpslide <=-

 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.

 There's a company I see advertised that sells new equipment,
 supposedly with BIOSes, peripherals and CPUs compatible with legacy
 OSes. There's a lot of embedded equipment out there running old Oses
 that is just fine in environment where it's not exposed to the
 internet.

 I used to run PBXes that still ran NT 3.51 embedded in 2012. It was
 physically separated from the internet (even from our LAN) and did the
 job. Same with Octel voicemail systems running on OS/2 3.0.




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