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Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

297 points · 304 comments · mlaux

Kuyawa · 1790430430 · focus · HN ↗
One interesting thing of living in the AI era is that every single one of these old apps (that people still use and never paid big money to upgrade because it it ain't broke don't fix it) can now be rebuilt for $5 in ten minutes if you really know what to do (YMMV)
If you don't know, you'd have to pay an expert big money to do that and the migration abandoned just like before, so another decade will go buy until AI does that without permission just because it found a possibility for optimization and it is instructed to do so without human approval, because governments
1. tclancy · 1790434993 · focus · HN ↗
  Absolutely. And run faster, cheaper and safer.
  Just as long as you still have all the documentation and the spec was done right and updated as things changed over the whole lifetime of the system up to now. And a good test harness. And industry-specific knowledge.

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