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Still Booting: People Stuck Using Ancient Windows Computers

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250516-the-people-stuck-using-ancient-windows-computers

by andrewl • 1 year ago

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scuff3d• 1 year ago

""CPRS is 100% text, and it's all capital letters. The thing looks like a word processor from the '90s," Zabriskie says. "It's like learning how to use an old car. You have to memorise all these commands, and you're always running into errors. Something that should take a minute ends up taking half an hour because you forgot to type a dash somewhere."

As a software dev who works mostly in the terminal and Neovim, I feel attacked...

blmayer• 1 year ago

Apart from security concerns I don't think this is bad, if it is well tested and still runs it fast, then there is no need to spend a lot of money in new software or hardware.

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