I think most of the world is like this. New equipment means big CapEx asks. A lot of manufacturing runs on an old XP machine held together by ebay parts and duct tape
All the big machines with computers in them run really old hardware. Airplanes, trains, etc have lifetimes measured in decades. The manufacturers stockpile parts, because these old chips are no longer for sale.
In some industries the machines can be around a century old if not more, and were converted to computer control only "recently" (as in decades ago). From that perspective, the rapid change in computing is the anomaly.
That's the beauty of open source software and standard protocols like RS232. No matter how long ago the software has been developed you can port it to newer (and more mantainable) machines.
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