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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] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or these companies could pay to train (no pun intended) technicians to learn the systems they’d like to maintain. No matter how old they are.

Until entropy comes for the actual hardware (assuming they won’t invest in remanufacture or production of replacements). Re-engineering a successfully working system is more costly and might result in worse outcomes, especially in the near term.