Linus Torvalds sees “zero real reason for anybody to waste one second” on them.

I didn’t know whether to mark this NSFW or not but it’s time to buy a new computer if you haven’t upgraded in multiple decades.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Yup. Airplanes, for example, take a lot of validation. It’s extremely expensive to retest a new configuration, so they make one computer, get it validated, and use it unmodified for the next thirty years.

      This is why the Boeing Max 8 thing was a big deal. They made approved modifications, but found in rare conditions it could cause unexpected and dangerous flight conditions. But, a times b times c was estimated to be less than the cost of doing it properly, so they didn’t.

    • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      13 days ago

      Yeah, the amount of industrial machinery being controlled by ancient hardware would baffle a lot of people.

      For a comparison people might relate to: There are ATMs running twenty year old versions of Windows XP.