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*****'s API change talk feels similar to the Y2K scare. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 year ago by ilex to c/showerthoughts
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I think we can defederate that company's name from our personal vocabulary instances.

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[–] whitehatbofh 1 points 1 year ago

It was definitely more than DOS and Windows, it was programs written on all kinds of platforms, from Unix to mainframes and more. That's also a key point, the operating systems were just part of the problem, it was the software found banking, industrial control, and all the things