alt Hacker NewsVery cool to read an article about windows 95 still being used in production - a nice contrast to the infinite AI hype cycle over everything. Tech may move fast in flashy areas but not in the more "boring" parts of the industry.
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1970-01-01 • yesterday at 11:30 PM
The screenshots show the program was made for DOS. Very likely Windows was used just for network file sharing.
jojobas • yesterday at 11:53 PM
Win95 is only 30 years old and runs natively on some modern hardware.
Apparently there is important stuff still running in emulated PDP-11s, almost double the age.
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I knew of a Windows 95 host running virtualized in a corp environment until at least 2014 or so. It was surprisingly sturdy, I only had to remote into it once or twice when the old software it was running hung up on something. It was old medical software and we apparently had a couple clients still interfaced to it.