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A spokesperson said that the only reason they didn’t open source Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups at the same time was that it was still in use for some highly critical systems.
/s //Probably
I bet there's a not insignificant chunk of Win3.11 code still lurking at the heart of Windows even now. Patched and recompiled for 64 bits, but still there.
Though most of it is probably for backwards compatibility by this point. Or so we should hope.
Nah. Having worked in the industry - we built (the) Unix and a Linux distro, and I helped secure it - I can absolutely confirm older OSes are being used for very crucial stuff in an ironic mix of risk and safety that is bizarre.
Hint: Big grey-blue boats with numbers and famous names on the side.
Inside a janitors closet, behind 24 firewalls, is a single SPARCStation serving the internal financial information for GE.
A single chair is in the converted closet for Hank to sit when they (it could be one person, or three working in shifts, no one is really sure. But they respond to "Hank") aren't putting out the most recent fire. The pile of used extinguishers are replaced daily. Hank likes his job. Hank doesn't like you. If you're lucky enough and get access through the 7 biometrically locked doors to exchange the extinguishers, it's been said you can hear mumblings from inside the closet about "uptime".
On September 30th, 2018, John Flannery, the CEO at the time, asked why this was all necessary and considered replacing this system with something more modern.
Like, names of presidents? Dude.
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