2021 F150's Sync will be powered by Windows 95

"Nibby" (nibby68)
06/25/2020 at 22:02 • Filed to: None

DISCUSSION (32)

WilliamsSW > Nibby
06/25/2020 at 22:05

As long as it has Clippy

Tripper > Nibby
06/25/2020 at 22:06

Ford fans

Kinja'd!!!

not for canada - australian in disguise > Nibby
06/25/2020 at 22:08

not to be outdone, FCA are switching to OS/2 warp 4 for the ram 1500, big moves

Kinja'd!!!

Tripper > not for canada - australian in disguise
06/25/2020 at 22:10

Actually had to use 0S 2 at the beginning of my career in IT. The power unit in the server room I worked in was last inspected in 1979 (this was circa 2010). Payroll company operating off a COBOL Mainframe. Had to use OS2 to boot it up!

SiennaMan > WilliamsSW
06/25/2020 at 22:12

Dangi t, I had finally forgotten about clippy... (die, Clippy, die!)

ranwhenparked > Tripper
06/25/2020 at 22:16

The bank I worked at as of a few months ago was running its back office databases on COBOL still. Extremely unintuitive and it didn’t play nicely with all the newer programs that were supposed to continuously pull information from it. The other overlaid systems were supposed to give a veneer of user friendliness, but you couldn’t get everything you needed that way. The only person in my office who was fully adept at using it was one lady in her 60s who had been working for us since 1986.

not for canada - australian in disguise > Tripper
06/25/2020 at 22:18

OS/2 is still frighteningly common in these days, although becoming rarer. Lots of older ATMs run on OS/2.

Kinja'd!!!

WilliamsSW > SiennaMan
06/25/2020 at 22:20

Lol everyone hated Clippy . It irritated the hell out of me.

dogisbadob > Nibby
06/25/2020 at 22:22

blue screen of death

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Nibby
06/25/2020 at 22:23

No joke, my place of work is still using devices that run on Windows CE

Tripper > ranwhenparked
06/25/2020 at 22:26

Oh yea we used to fly a guy in from SC put him up for weeks at a time and pay him $400/hour when we had a big issue.

For Sweden > Nibby
06/25/2020 at 22:31

The Boeing 737 MAX uses a 16-bit computer because that’s the hardware the FAA approved of, so...

And a friendly reminder that the F-22's computer security plan is, “no one knows how to write in Ada 83 lol”

ranwhenparked > Tripper
06/25/2020 at 22:34

We were told one of the advantages of keeping customer information on such an old system was that it was harder to hack, but I’m pretty sure it was mainly because moving everything over to something newer would be expensive and cause possible business interruption/downtime. They are going to have to make a change at some point, though, when the last of their older employees retire and there’s nobody left to ask how things work or who can troubleshoot when something goes wrong.