[aizk]

Very cool to read an article about windows 95 still being used in production - a nice contrast to the infinite AI hype cycle over everything. Tech may move fast in flashy areas but not in the more "boring" parts of the industry.

[accrual]

I knew of a Windows 95 host running virtualized in a corp environment until at least 2014 or so. It was surprisingly sturdy, I only had to remote into it once or twice when the old software it was running hung up on something. It was old medical software and we apparently had a couple clients still interfaced to it.

[jojobas]

Win95 is only 30 years old and runs natively on some modern hardware.

Apparently there is important stuff still running in emulated PDP-11s, almost double the age.

[Joe_Cool]

It needs quite a few fixes to even run in a VM. But it can be done: https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x

[shrubble]

Yes certain software for Canadian made nuclear power plants, comes to mind. Was a post on the VCF forums about a job listing that required PDP-11 knowledge.

[1970-01-01]

The screenshots show the program was made for DOS. Very likely Windows was used just for network file sharing.

[RaftPeople]

Ya, RPG assumed character based IO so probably a safe bet that they just ported stuff that ran on IBM character based terminals and just made it run in DOS. (I worked in RPG in the 80's)

[userbinator]

There are subtantial amounts of large industrial processes still in operation using equipment from the late 19th century.

[gnabgib]

Do you mean 20th? Even current looms, steam engines, stills aren't from the 18 hundreds