Tom's Hardware learned that candidates would oversee machines running 166 MHz processors with 8 MB of RAM, which are used to display important technical train data to...
  • @[email protected]English
    32•5 months ago

    Until it becomes obsolete, unsupportable, the crux of your operation, and/or the basis for all of your decisions 😬

    (Yes, I read the article, it’s just the signs, but yes, the above still applies!)

    • SharkAttak
      5•5 months ago

      Not to mention when you want to change the entire system it becomes a huge operation and problem.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•5 months ago

        Massive risk to that change too.

        So many people don’t understand how risk informs everything a business does.

        What cost is there to a given system being down for one hour? A day? Any regulations around it?

        Often it’s better to pay a known quantity up front than risk potential outages where you can’t predict all the downstream affects.

    • TurunEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      I’d consider those various states of not working. So… Don’t fix it if it’s not broken!