How can you use such an operating system now
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I'm using a Win7 machine at work, because I have to support a system that saw it's last update in 2014. There is actually a Win10 compatible version of this software, but it only supports maybe a third of the chips of the original software, and sadly the ones we use are not among those.
And it can get worse. I've got an oscilloscope that "runs" under a heavily modified version of Win98...
Why you shouldn't develop production grade software for Windows part 25.
Just to be the devil's advocate here, you can make the same mistake with embedded Linux.
Any old software should not be in the network.
Assuming it is not on the network, I don't care what OS it runs. I'd like to see if I could run your OS on a virtual machine and give access to the hardware.
Does your scope give good resolution? How does it compare?
The scope is an old 4-Channel digital scope from HP (now Agilent). It cost about a fortune when it was bought, and now I got my hands on it for a (small) donation in the barbeque fund. It needs some work (some dials' contacts need rework, and it definitly needs a new fan that does not sound like a starting plane. But otherwise, it is still good.
It only was retired because for our next project, 2GS won't cut it. And the amount of samples it could store was not much (for our needs), too. Still overkill for my private projects, with the bonus that I don't need to dig through manuals, as I know this thing inside out.
Reminds me of a recording studio I used to work at which had an MS-DOS machine long after Windows XP came out because it was what we printed cassette labels on. With a dot matrix printer.