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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by elzbardico on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:34PM (#38856894)
Most of those really old devices are usually air-gaped from the internet for incidental reasons. Either they run on closed networks or have no networking at all.

You're not going to find a 30 years old machine that controls the pumps of nuclear reactor on the internet.

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by spoiler on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:48PM (#38857102)
But if these machines are so isolated, and given they've been running with the "if it ain't broken" mindset: why, and more importantly how do they even get updated? If they aren't being updated, why discuss constraints on updating them?
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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by elzbardico on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:01PM (#38857299)
I bet they don't get updated, ever.
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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by mschuster91 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @03:07PM (#38859121)
> You're not going to find a 30 years old machine that controls the pumps of nuclear reactor on the internet.

Stuxnet would like to have a word with you. Airgap isn't enough to prevent malware from spreading.

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