The floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping block - eviltoast
  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    If you try to replace just the hardware, you get fun solutions like a modern computer with a VM running Dosbox on critical infrastructure. Hey, if it works and your boss is willing to sign off on it…

    • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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      10 months ago

      Hehe, a similar thingy happened in one of my previous companies. The CPU was easily spoofed using qemu but in that case the whole OS was almost immutable with hardcoded bus configs for the video card (some old pre ATI card), which I was unable to pass through, causing the project to be taken out of my hands. I feel like it didn’t go forward after that.