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German Railway Company Is Looking For MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 Admin
Tuesday January 30, 2024. 03:00 PM , from Slashdot
New submitter betso.net shares a report: A German railway firm posted a vacancy for a Windows 3.11 Administrator just before the weekend. In addition to skills in wrangling Windows for Workgroups on the 30-year-old operating system, the recruiter would look upon a candidate more fondly for possessing MS-DOS experience. The admin would purportedly oversee systems with 166MHz processors and a whopping 8MB of RAM. It might seem slightly worrying that modern railways are still running on such ancient systems, but mission-critical systems often adhere to the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' philosophy.
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/01/30/1054238/german-railway-company-is-looking-for-ms-dos-and-wind...
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