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“Bic Pen” just released the dark secrets of the medieval “quill”.
I owned a copy of MS-DOS 1.0. The source code listing was included in the back of the manual.
This is a very ass-kissy M$ article. Love the “m$ continues to embrace open source”. Yeah you can tell because they open the code to their software many decades after it is completely obsolete.
What exactly were you expecting? Should they opensource Windows 11?
No. They should burn it.
Perfect reply doesn’t exis…
Edgy
Yes, unironically. It’d eliminate most security risks currently inherent to Windows while allowing for decent customization. It would also greatly accelerate WINE and ReactOS, giving legacy software a smooth offramp from insecure older versions of windows to Linux.
But until they were all patched, they’d all be exploitable
they already are
Yes.
I’d expect the author of this article to understand what the word embraced means to start with. If this is m$ embracing OS, it’s akin to seeing two people shake hands and shouting “OMG they’re fucking!”
“omg they’re fucking”
A spokesperson said that the only reason they didn’t open source Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups at the same time was that it was still in use for some highly critical systems.
/s //Probably
3.11 is still used by Deutsche Bahn for display systems.
In new displays as well? Or are there some legacy considerations for the old displays that are still around?
I saw a Windows OOM error screen (something modern, win 10 at least) on my local transit providers in tram screen. One of them, the other 10 were working fine. That means that they each screen has its own os and hardware that needs to go with it.
How is that financially dependable or even practical to maintain? Hardware solution: video signal splitter Software solution: embedded controller board (pi1 would be good enough or some industry comparable product) for own os and software to run the information grabbed from the network. As images or as data that is then rendered.
I get that supporting legacy sucks. But it must be cheaper (not to mention easier and good on the brains for the it people) to get this stuff updated and kick it out. I kinda get it with banking mainframes and such but in this case there is nearly no risk involved when it goes down and needs to be fixed. And it went down anyways.
Most german thing I’ve heard today
I’ve got equipment in the field thats from the early 90s. I imagine there’s plenty of computer driven shit that just works so never gets replaced.
The best part about shit that age is you can easily fix shit with some electronics or engineering skills.
Nah. Having worked in the industry - we built (the) Unix and a Linux distro, and I helped secure it - I can absolutely confirm older OSes are being used for very crucial stuff in an ironic mix of risk and safety that is bizarre.
Hint: Big grey-blue boats with numbers and famous names on the side.
Like, names of presidents? Dude.
Inside a janitors closet, behind 24 firewalls, is a single SPARCStation serving the internal financial information for GE.
A single chair is in the converted closet for Hank to sit when they (it could be one person, or three working in shifts, no one is really sure. But they respond to “Hank”) aren’t putting out the most recent fire. The pile of used extinguishers are replaced daily. Hank likes his job. Hank doesn’t like you. If you’re lucky enough and get access through the 7 biometrically locked doors to exchange the extinguishers, it’s been said you can hear mumblings from inside the closet about “uptime”.
On September 30th, 2018, John Flannery, the CEO at the time, asked why this was all necessary and considered replacing this system with something more modern.
"I joke with people and say it’s the Air Force’s oldest IT system. But it’s the age that provides that security,” Rossi said in an October interview. “You can’t hack something that doesn’t have an IP address. It’s a very unique system — it is old and it is very good.”
In 2016, the Government Accountability Office wrote that SACCS runs on an IBM Series/1 computer dating from the 1970s and that the Defense Department planned “to update its data storage solutions, port expansion processors, portable terminals and desktop terminals by the end of fiscal year 2017,” but it’s unclear whether those upgrades have occurred.
I bet there’s a not insignificant chunk of Win3.11 code still lurking at the heart of Windows even now. Patched and recompiled for 64 bits, but still there.
Though most of it is probably for backwards compatibility by this point. Or so we should hope.
If you go deep enough, there’s still windows 3.11 dialog boxes in Windows 11 for some core functionality.
Windows 11 is finally a mature operating system that most people would be happy to use.
NOPE.
😬
Microsoft explained, “These materials aren’t just operating system releases in the traditional sense. In several cases, the listings represent point‑in‑time working states and hand-written notes, preserved by Tim Paterson himself. Think of them as a printed commit history of a Git repository.”
