The “source” is a tweet from a random dude, it’s almost certainly not true.
Comment on Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Holy crap, they are serious. I though I was on !programmer_humor@programming.dev for a minute. I sure hope none of those computers are connected to the internet. There’s a massive number of vulnerabilities in windows 3.1 and windows 95.
Corgana@startrek.website 3 months ago
Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But how many people are looking for Windows 3.1 anything today?
Well I suppose now there might be more
krdo@programming.dev 3 months ago
Windows 3.1 doesn’t even come with a TCP/IP stack. It’s actually pretty safe.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
As long as that’s the exact version they’re using. Windows for workgroups 3.11 has networking.
5redie8@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Bold of you to assume any of the “experts” writing about this know what a TCP/IP stack is