• vaultdweler13@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Some banks are still running windows 98 internally, admitedly so long as said system isnt connected to the internet it should be fine.

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      1 year ago

      Lol, not to mention Cobalt and other horrors that are lurking in Legacy systems no one has looked at in 50 years.

      I’m thinking mainframe terminals, where the character has to be in the right place on the screen in order to store something in RAM.

      Even worse, how many systems are still using punch cards? How often do those cards need to be replaced?

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      1 year ago

      Win 98

      This isn’t true, this can’t be true and I refuse to believe it.

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        1 year ago

        @xavier666 @vaultdweler13, it’s true, For internal use with PCs connected to the central server itself and not to the network, it is used for compatibility with corporate software, sometimes still very old Windows. This, when using it on the one hand only in a specialized way and on the other hand only locally, is more than enough. The same in factories in production for the automation of some valve or machinery with repetitive processes, a super-pc with a NASA OS is not needed.

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          1 year ago

          For PCs at workshop, I can understand Win98. The OS is just a bootloader to a single application. But for banking, it’s a terrible security hazard.

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            @xavier666, only if it is used in subsidiaries where they have to manage money movements over the network, but not in local administrative applications where it is irrelevant, as in all purely local uses. In monoapplications in this area, even an old MsDOS will be worth it.
            They have traveled to the Moon with an SO from a Tamagochi.