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		boring_twenties on Dec 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learning from OpenBSD can make computers marginall... OK, banks, hospitals. You forgot SCADA systems. How on earth do you leap from these to not only all business, but all humans?

chungus_khan on Dec 13, 2019 [–]

Nearly all retail and food service businesses in the west operate POS systems. Very few of those run anything more than Windows XP, and a huge number run DOS or OS/2.

boring_twenties on Dec 13, 2019 | [–]

I'd think emulators would make short work of those, especially the DOS ones.

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