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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by ajxs on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:05PM (#50397649)
> ...getting the current software running in a VM specifically to make it easier to transition to new hardware.

Some of the signal control infrastructure for the Melbourne rail network was ported over to an emulated PDP-11 System for this reason. This was previously discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514553

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