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>The head of the Federal Aviation Administration just outlined an ambitious goal to upgrade the U.S.’s air traffic control (ATC) system and bring it into the 21st century. According to NPR, most ATC towers and other facilities today feel like they’re stuck in the 20th century, with controllers using paper strips and floppy disks to transfer data, while their computers run Windows 95. While this likely saved them from the disastrous CrowdStrike outage that had a massive global impact, their age is a major risk to the nation’s critical infrastructure, with the FAA itself saying that the current state of its hardware is unsustainable.

Archive: https://archive.today/mRCWm From the post: >>The head of the Federal Aviation Administration just outlined an ambitious goal to upgrade the U.S.’s air traffic control (ATC) system and bring it into the 21st century. According to NPR, most ATC towers and other facilities today feel like they’re stuck in the 20th century, with controllers using paper strips and floppy disks to transfer data, while their computers run Windows 95. While this likely saved them from the disastrous CrowdStrike outage that had a massive global impact, their age is a major risk to the nation’s critical infrastructure, with the FAA itself saying that the current state of its hardware is unsustainable.

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I had a bad ass active world desktop that showed where the sun was was and where the city lights were turning on + dawn dusk. When you are working at your start up in a building, it was really helpful. The #1 missed app and it's been what, 35 years? Damn. 35.

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I held on to my old OS/2 machine well past it's usefulness just because of nostalgia.

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I still run win 7 and have an NT machine that hasn't missed a beat. Not a whole lot of consumer useful / needed features (but a whole lot of exploitation /ad / revenue generating / big brother items).

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I don't have the patience for that stuff anymore, but I'm glad there are people out there who do.

I just came across this tidbit in the WiKi entry:

OS/2 has been used in New York City's subway system for MetroCards.[83] Rather than interfacing with the user, it connects simple computers and the mainframes. When NYC MTA finishes its transition to contactless payment, OS/2 will be removed.[84]

That insinuates the transition hasn't been finished yet.

:-D