But how else can it book requests for priority access, and verify the credit card for whoever booked the elevator?
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The elevator was running Windows XP.
Clearly a extreme case of overengineering. An elevator has no business running more than a few microcontrollers.
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Ah, the blossoms of unregulated wild capitalism.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 month ago
In highrises with lots of stops and users, it uses some more advanced software to schedule the optimal stops, or distribute the load between multiple lifts. A similar concept exists for HDD controllers, where the read write arm must move to different positions to load data stored on different plates.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
This requires little more than a 286. It’s an elevator. Responding in times measured in seconds. What kind of computations do you think are required here? Imaginary quaternion matrixes? Squared?
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 month ago
Yes, but if you have it as a Windows program it’s easier to configure on a screen with mouse and keyboard, change settings, display help files or give the source code to someone else to make changes or add features.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
also it was probably not too expensive to grad a bog standard PC off the shelf and do it on that. I’ve see raspis in the wild doing tasks like that. and those will be outdated by the time they’re replaced too
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Qube cinema servers only got off XP in 2015. They’re still on 7 though.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
But how else can it be safe to connect to the internet?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
You need to be on-site to fix it anyway, just access the debug port.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
It’s probably only the screen component that is running an old version of embedded windows.
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
That’s what I think too. And then I see “Their systems are built into everything around us”, which basically only applies to PCs and laptops. What is built into pretty much everything around us is GnuLinux.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Not even GNU - just Linux.
Yeah yeah, something something GNU/Linux blah blah copypasta…
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Many things, but far from that.
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Yeah, it was a statement, not a question. But it’s partly my fault for not using the comma appropriately. Fixed.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Screen? In a elevator?
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 month ago
How else are you gonna show ads?
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I hate that you are right.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yes? That is not that unusual and it is mentioned in the third sentence of the article.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Those screens can easily run on an integrated Raspberry Pi microcontroller, they dont exactly have complex graphics