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Re:Apparently, employers are still asking for Windows 95 and... by silentbicycle on Friday June 25, 2010 @11:09PM (#1462996)
How many point-of-sale systems have you seen that run on Windows 3.1 or old curses-ish UIs? I'm sure it's even more common out of public view: in airport ticket kiosks, warehouse inventory systems, and the like. I saw my share of anachronistic systems working for a Midwestern public library system.

Legacy code hell doesn't just apply to codebases.

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Re:Apparently, employers are still asking for Windows 95 and... by mahmud on Saturday June 26, 2010 @01:31AM (#1463181)
LOL @curses; those are Borland BGI and Turbo Graphics, man. To run curses at that time, you needed a 25k Sun Workstation.
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Re:Apparently, employers are still asking for Windows 95 and... by nitrogen on Saturday June 26, 2010 @02:54AM (#1463277)
Some of them probably were curses-based, running on a central server feeding a dozen Wyse terminals around the building.
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Re:Apparently, employers are still asking for Windows 95 and... by ugh on Saturday June 26, 2010 @01:17AM (#1463157)
ATMs!
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