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[–] 87 points 6 months ago (9 children)

could be worse. last year, deutsche bahn put up a job ad looking for a developer familiar with windows 3.1 in a networked environment to work on their fleet of high speed trains.

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  • [–] [S] 78 points 6 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    Industrial embedded software is such a shitshow. Somehow Microsoft convinced companies that Windows is a great solution for controlling heavy machinery.

    Tbh there's no reports of that choice leading to actual accidents, but still you're stuck with an old version of Windows with no possibility of upgrade.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    On the plus side, you might also end up maintaining their own Linux distribution Linux4ICE (or the newer one called EULE) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    specifically i think it's the speedometers that run windows for workgroups. it might be one of those controlled systems you can't switch out without recertifying everything.

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