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What are the chances they ditch floppies on the hardware end and switch to GNU/Linux running DOSBox to preserve the software stack?

Presumably (hopefully) the existing system is airgapped in some way or otherwise restricted to communication with other ATC systems, so DOSBox-X running Win95/98[1] could act as a drop-in replacement for the software side...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214386



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