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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

  1. narag · · focus · HN ↗
    Half of our system is running on 2002 versions software. To my desperation, my calls for updating has been persistently denied. There're no technical reasons to keep it as is, it's more about wetware issues.

    We still use dBase files in some point as transient format, not using dBase as such though. Oh, and plenty of positional text files, but that's more a question of interop with partners.

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