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zdragnar 40 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Convert Linux to Windows

Is this sarcasm? Some of my favorite games are 20 years old. Windows is popular in a lot of manufacturing spaces because the equipment software doesn't get updated and only connects to old programs over 16 bit serial ports.

There's a whole world out there of legacy software that is happily churning along, and doesn't need to be updated.

tormeh 40 days ago [–]

Okay, but then you could also keep it running on an old OS. Fork out the money for a RHEL license, and just never upgrade.

Dylan16807 40 days ago | [–]

But I don't want to run a separate machine with 15, 20, 25 year old hardware to keep that OS working.

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