Comment on Which kind of applications need legacy processor but up to date OS ?
cowfodder@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Embedded controllers, especially in manufacturing. I work on machines that use basically an embedded Pentium 1 and a custom kernel. I know of some CNC machines running on 486 that still receive software updates but I don’t know what the OS is based on.
quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub 15 hours ago
Most industrial embedded PCs I’ve serviced ran on Windows XP Pro but you’d never see it (under the machine control software that autoruns on boot) unless things had gone pear-shaped. It was kinda trippy how at the time you could find that OS running on everything from grandpa’s old Gateway 2000 all the way up to $100K+ industrial CNC machines and million-dollar medical imaging equipment.
cowfodder@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Absolutely. The machines I work on the most are XP embedded, but I’ve heard rumors that there are Linux based systems coming down the line.
I’m pretty sure there’s a Bridgeport conversation from back in the day that used a 486 PC running sysunix and an embedded controller card, but I could be mistaken.