@esoterik said:
@RogerWilco said:
...Best example and WTF I have seen, was when I learned that 40% of our Dutch national electricity grid was controlled by an Excel'95 spreadsheet running on Windows NT SP3, because it broke on anything newer and the "developer" had left over 10 years ago. This was as recent as 2007.
That story is just crazy enough that it is probably more true than anyone wants to belive. They are going to have a real fun time when that PC finally gives out, i mean what are the chances of windows NT installing - at all - on modern hardware? I was building a test machine a year or so ago and i wanted to put all the operating systems that we supported on it. Turns out that the Win2k installer would crash and reset on the (new, preinstalled w/vista) PC i tried; i guess it didn't like something about the hardware.
I have a win95 and NT4 both installed on quite modern hardware. Well, modern hardware abstracted by VMware a bit... Actually, if I started working there in an appropriate IT capacity, the first thing I'd do is likely P2V that thing. *shudders* OMG, I wonder if VMware's converter agent still installs on NT4?