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dBase, MS-DOS 3.x, not using industrial anything. And as its a front of house tally machine, there's literally zero incentive to ever upgrade it. Downtime is measured in the yearly reboot, but there are non-operational business hours, so everything is just scheduled around that.

We've already got it running on modern hardware. It's running under qemu. And the dBase stuff gets ripped out and sent to a REST server for broad monitoring and so on.

We... Have one small oddity? There's a tape backup system, that throws everything through the soundcard. (Sound Blaster only.)

Would be nice if onboarders didn't see dBase and just throw everything at AI instead of actually learning the skills they'll need when data migrations happen. But that's a people problem that can't be solved with tech.