Comment on Gatekeeping for profit
Dragnmn@lemm.ee 1 year agoYou can’t virtualize it because you need to physically plug in the hardware, and backups are useless if you can’t read the files without the Win95 software.
Comment on Gatekeeping for profit
Dragnmn@lemm.ee 1 year agoYou can’t virtualize it because you need to physically plug in the hardware, and backups are useless if you can’t read the files without the Win95 software.
VoxX@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can connect VMs to physical ports. We use a Win XP VM to connect through a USB to serial converter to get data from devices 30+ years old. You can make and use backups because the VM can run the original software.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 year ago
Some lab equip has proprietary ports that would need reverse engineering to make and use a USB adapter.
Dragnmn@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s fair, I read virtualize as “cloud/hardware far away” and not “local physical machine with a VM on it”.