A 23-year-old Windows 3.1 system failure crashed Paris airport (zdnet.com) 4 points by kitwalker12 10y ago ↗ HN
[–] davidf18 10y ago ↗ Maybe they should consider running their OS's in VMs. [–] kitwalker12 10y ago ↗ From the article: It's an odd balance between tech that's obsolete enough to not be a target, but current enough to still work [–] [deleted] 10y ago ↗ (comment deleted) [–] davidf18 10y ago ↗ A Mac Host OS would be less likely to have a virus than a contemporary Windows OS. [–] ArkyBeagle 10y ago ↗ Out of the box, Win3.x doesn't run well in at least VirtualBox. Perhaps there are appliances for it somewhere but I don't know where.
[–] kitwalker12 10y ago ↗ From the article: It's an odd balance between tech that's obsolete enough to not be a target, but current enough to still work [–] [deleted] 10y ago ↗ (comment deleted) [–] davidf18 10y ago ↗ A Mac Host OS would be less likely to have a virus than a contemporary Windows OS.
[–] davidf18 10y ago ↗ A Mac Host OS would be less likely to have a virus than a contemporary Windows OS.
[–] ArkyBeagle 10y ago ↗ Out of the box, Win3.x doesn't run well in at least VirtualBox. Perhaps there are appliances for it somewhere but I don't know where.
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