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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by rdtsc on Saturday February 11, 2017 @09:28PM (#13626296)
> Critical sensors, HVAC systems, fuel management systems, etc. that have proprietary windows-only clients. Some work well enough in Wine, others don't.

No joke. Around mid 2000's worked at a scientific lab part time. We still had Windows 3.1 machines in there because measurement equipment (sensors) had older DOS based drivers. So would run the experiments then had to use floppies to shuffle results around.

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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by emidln on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:28AM (#13627272)
When I was on contract at the Illinois EPA around 2008, there was exactly one computer that could program the dataloggers used to monitor air quality around the state. It was the slowest computer at the IEPA, and it was still too fast to reliably program our dataloggers. It took about 3 minutes to send the configuration to the datalogger (over a serial port), and running the software had roughly a 60% chance of corrupting the transfer.

The first Windows-based software I ever shipped was for programming ESC dataloggers. Last I heard, it was still in use by the IEPA Bureau of Air.

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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by gambiting on Sunday February 12, 2017 @09:56AM (#13628586)
McLaren P1 requires an ancient Compaq laptop to service, because nothing else will connect to the car.

http://jalopnik.com/this-ancient-laptop-is-the-only-key-to-t...

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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by Thev00d00 on Sunday February 12, 2017 @11:31AM (#13629046)
*McLaren F1
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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by ramy_d on Saturday February 11, 2017 @10:41PM (#13626550)
wow, is emulation not an option at that stage?
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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by rdtsc on Saturday February 11, 2017 @10:49PM (#13626587)
It talked to real hardware so it wasn't. There was also an effect of professors doing the same thing for many, many years and after a while they simply stop following the latest and most current things in technology.
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