On 07/03/2015 05:16 PM, Billie Walsh wrote:
On 07/03/2015 08:55 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
I dread to think what life is like for the people who are running mission critical s/w on one of the old IBM PC clones from 1982. What happens when that not quite compatible with IBM hardware fails and the program that was written specifically for that hardware just has to keep running or the company goes under?
The TV station has a $25,000 custom piece of software that runs on an old pentium computer. We keep saying prayers for the continued operation of that computer. .................
- might it be practical to run that mission critical s/w on one of the old IBM PC clones as a Virtual Machine on VMware or Virtual Box ?? regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org