▲ 828 ▼ German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com) submitted 2 years ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world 213 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (2 children) Why change what isn't broken, right? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children) That's the thing though, it is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 2 points 2 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): it is. Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent [–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Oof. permalink fedilink source parent [–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I've worked in that area. It was broken back in the 90s and I doubt the crusty old parts of the system have gotten any better. I was tasked with writing a more modern wrapper for part of the legacy system, and when I asked for documentation I was told they had literally nothing to give me. I was just an intern at the time so maybe someone with more clout could have gotten sometime to dig in a forgotten closet for old technical docs, but it still strikes me as a very bad sign when technical docs for a system every agent uses all day every day aren't immediately available on the company's intranet. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children) That's the thing though, it is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 2 points 2 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): it is. Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent [–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Oof. permalink fedilink source parent
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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I've worked in that area. It was broken back in the 90s and I doubt the crusty old parts of the system have gotten any better. I was tasked with writing a more modern wrapper for part of the legacy system, and when I asked for documentation I was told they had literally nothing to give me. I was just an intern at the time so maybe someone with more clout could have gotten sometime to dig in a forgotten closet for old technical docs, but it still strikes me as a very bad sign when technical docs for a system every agent uses all day every day aren't immediately available on the company's intranet. permalink fedilink source parent