Ernest J Gainey Iii wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
If it's stable and it's not connected to the internet, old OSes work
just fine. Northern Telecom PBXes used NT 4.0 embedded for their core
OS, it was on it's own LAN, usually you'd get to it by PPPing into it directly or through a jump box.
A lot of banks used to run their ATM's on OS/2. Most have moved off to WindowsNT so they can get support and install additional tools like firewalls, IDS/IPS and antivirus.
Just correcting myself - CallPilot (The voicemail system) ran on NT
4.0. The PBX ran X11, their OS, which ran either on bare metal on
older propietary CPUs, on top of Motorola CPUs, and later as an app
layer on VXWorks and later Linux on Intel CPUs. Same OS, same
software, same commands, a ton of hardware platforms.
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