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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

uses ancient software because it’s reliable

HAHAHA!

I just have to laugh at that idea, since I've been using computers since the days that those OSes were in common use. Reliable is not what I would call a lot of that old stuff for sure.

The bottom line is that ancient software will likely have ancient security vulnerabilities that would be trivial to exploit and take over or destroy those systems. It's not good.