alt Hacker NewsA few years ago there was a story where the single Amiga that ran an entire US school district's HVAC was replaced with a system costing like 1.5 million dollars, after 30 years of dutiful service.
I can't think of examples offhand but you bet your ass there are donut shops and auto body repair services running 386s to do POS, inventory, and the like. Some of them may be driving terminals off Xenix.
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asdefghyk • today at 7:48 PM
RE "....a system costing like 1.5 million dollars, after 30 years of dutiful service....."
I immediately wondered ... how long the new system would last or be used .... and how long it would be problem free ?
Funny thing about this is that the character-based systems of that era, whether PC-type or host+terminal type, were most of the time so much faster and more responsive than the laggy, over-animated, touchscreen trash they always replace them with in order to get big screens and prettier graphics.