Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers

• vivendi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Clearly you’ve never seen the concept of Emulation, because that’s how you run ancient apps dumbass

  If your workplace needs special windows 9x software and you haven’t managed to work some form of virtualized environment in place of 30+ years old hardware you should be fired

  Newsflash do you really think banking COBOL systems run on fucking IBM mainframes from 1962? They’re all software emulated.

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  • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1. IBM still manufactures new mainframe computers and they will actually support your ancient mainframe from 1962 (assuming you’re still paying your licensing haha)

    2. the vast majority of Windows 7 and older computers that are still in production are attached to specialized hardware or industrial equipment. Stuff that costs many hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.

    3. emulating older OSes doesn’t really solve the problem at all because the actual concern is security, not hardware issues.

    4. emulation isn’t perfect, especially with passthrough. Especially when you’re trying to pass through an ancient connector through a virtual adapter (show me a modern computer with SCSI)

    I could keep going but that’s all I have enough care to do right now

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    • vivendi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Industrial emulation is easy to do, a sandboxed and controlled VM won’t die from hardware faults like a hunk of shit from 1993

      Also there are NEW computers made specifically for this particular purpose, they even have ISA buses and shit

      I don’t understand why lemmy is living in la la land, the moment you go against the narrative you’re brigaded to shit

      Yes, y’all do be in fact wrong

      Bonus: IBM sells emulation packages for migration to new architectures. IBM probably knows better than the lot of us.

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