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Re:Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks by tantalor on Monday August 10, 2020 @11:52AM (#24110593)
Why not just virtualize it and use whatever hardware you want?
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Re:Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks by blahyawnblah on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:10PM (#24110776)
The hardware itself may be the issue. Even com ports over usb don't work a good amount of the time
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Re:Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks by sheepybloke on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @09:01AM (#24119820)
Yes. I do some DoD Aerospace work, and we have expensive PCI cards that only work on Windows 7 or XP that are used to talk MIL-1553B to our hardware. So, we've got to have a piece of hardware that can handle both of requirements which can be a pain.
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Re:Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks by recursive on Monday August 10, 2020 @04:39PM (#24113720)
The hardware probably has to be tested just the same. I don't think that gets you anything, except more complexity and more testing.
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