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> You don’t run out-of-support software on an internet-connected computer.

The rail industry, alas, begs to differ.



Is this a dig at OS/2?


No, because that's actually still supported:

https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/

https://www.ecomstation.com


What have you seen?


Lots of Windows 2000/XP and horribly-outdated Linux.

They were acceptable decisions made back in the days before railways started deciding to network all the things, which wasn't really foreseeable at the time... and railway stuff tends to last 20-40 years.


Search newspaper headlines dated within the last 10 or 5 years?




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