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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 10 2012 @ 09:01 PM EDT |
NT4 and Win98 might be insecure, but when the mission critical sftware
has
been certified on those platforms, and nothing else, you use Win98 or
NT4.
Getting the mision critcal software certified for a newer platform
might not be
cost effective.
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| Authored by: wood gnome on Saturday, August 11 2012 @ 12:40 AM EDT |
These machines are not connected to anything outside the lab. Purely running
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 11 2012 @ 02:26 PM EDT |
I used to work in the clinical trials industry. We ran various versions of
windows, but notably, the biggest chemistry analyzers were controlled by windows
NT computers (probably NT4). The machines were quite old, and the software was,
shall we say, a bit finicky (arcane interface that people were afraid to tinker
with).
We did however, have a newer instrument running SunOS (A Unix flavor). I know
because I had to reboot the blasted thing on occasion (I blame the analysis
software, not the OS).
Even had a couple other analyzers controlled by Powermacs (Mac classic).
In short, these kind of companies are running machines with whatever OS is
required to control their machines, and they don't care about updating. What
they would do if the machine broke is another matter...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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