• plactagonic@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    The oldest version of Win I used was 95 about 2 years ago on chromatography machine (I think hplc or gas).

    It is to my knowledge still in use in the school because the software don’t run on newer machines. The teacher told me that he don’t know what will he do when it dies. It isn’t really an issue on Linux.

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      5 months ago

      It might be worth trying it in Wine. It has great support for older software especially.

      Within the past year I have compiled new software for Windows 98.

      In a lab environment, it’s important to strictly control software versions and understand thoroughly what gets updated. We also want the ability to use the same version of software indefinitely if it meets our needs.

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        5 months ago

        I think that there are more issues like archaic connectors and stuff like that. You can’t find new hardware with 30yo standard io.

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      O&G still uses a lot of old versions as well. I remember back in the Win 7 days when I had to set up a 95 virtual machine and register a bunch of DLLs by hand plus set up a fake A: drive because even the 95 version of the software was garbage. A friend of mine did something similar but he got it working on the Win 7 machine somehow. I never understood how, but he left a script behind at the company he worked for because it needed to be reinstalled every time someone did something stupid and he didn’t want to do it by hand.