Comment on Which kind of applications need legacy processor but up to date OS ?
quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub 10 hours agoMost 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 10 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.