[ale] [EXTERNAL] Re: Stupid people and DST

[Allen Beddingfield]

The same places who still have Windows NT, OS/2, DOS, SCO Unix, etc... in place.  The places with a single-task computer running some piece of equipment or machinery, where the computer is treated just like an appliance or piece of machinery.
I've seen (within the past few years), early 80s vintage IBM computers with two vertical 8" diskette drives running scientific equipment, 386 systems running scientific equipment, an 8088 based system with a proprietary interface of some sort controlling a door lock system, an OS/2 Warp 3 system running a kiosk presentation that has been in place since the early 90s, an Amiga 2000 being actively used for one task, a Windows 95 system running a fabric cutter, etc....  I occasionally do some consulting work for a government office with an in-production 1980s era COBOL application running on SCO OpenServer 5 - this thing is in active daily use, and prints to a bunch of wide format dot matrix printers.  I pulled it into a VMware VM for them several years ago, to get off of an old 1990s Pentium system it was running on.  I personally have a Windows XP system sitting around, solely because that is the newest version of Windows that the software for one of my radios will run on (ham radio operator here).  I know of other hams with old DOS systems for that same purpose.
Not everyone upgrades things that just work....  

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
Office 205-348-2251
allen at ua.edu

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From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2022 1:28 AM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ale] Stupid people and DST

Jim Kinney via Ale said on Tue, 15 Mar 2022 19:40:05 -0400


>Too bad a calendar reset won't fix the 32 bit clock death. Holding out
>for a 128bit pure open source RISK cpu with 256 TB on chip ram.

Who in the WORLD will be using 32 bit Linux/Unix/BSD by the 2030's?

SteveT

Steve Litt
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