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Re:Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life by eyegor on Monday November 18, 2019 @01:26PM (#21566757)
Basically all scientific research labs use some equipment running windows xp or older because the drivers can't be installed on modern windows for one reason or another. Controllers for things like spectroscopy, electron beam microscopes, centrifuges, etc. Custom control boards are also common in industrial (oil, gas, chemical processing) applications.
Re:Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life by Whirl on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @01:38PM (#21576513)
I once spent an internship running a fluorescent dye laser operated by an computer running DOS (maybe MS DOS?). It was terrifying, but the beast worked perfectly well.

And my PhD lab was using mass-spectrometers that still required vacuum tubes.