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Re:Tell HN: I used the same computer since 2007 (with minor ... by jxramos on Monday June 06, 2022 @10:47PM (#31649318)
yah this is it; software doesn't stand still unless you use old applications. I've read about folks keeping old systems around to use their old licensed software or some other application they know the ins-and-outs of and can get stuff done on it without having to break their mental model of the application behavior each upgrade with all the UI scramble and revamping. I'm starting to get a dose of that myself with some applications I keep running.
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Re:Tell HN: I used the same computer since 2007 (with minor ... by zh3 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:24AM (#31650182)
Rather than keeping old systems around (though we do that too, still having 486 systems running), we keep diskless version of old OS versions around, complete with installed applications (IDEs, compilers etc). Anything from WinXP to Win10 works fine over iSCSI (presumably 11 does too), DOS using etherboot and MSNET, and diskless linux has never been a challenge.
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