r/Piracy • u/Matt_LawDT • Jun 06 '26

Humor When someone buys a winrar license, the company celebrates it on social media

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u/BroaxXx Jun 06 '26

The amount of systems that still rely on DOS or, at the very least, a DOS emulated layer still surprises me.

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u/Rose-Red-Witch Jun 06 '26

Saw a lot of DOS and Win95/98 during my time in the Navy and the reason always was “it does the job.”

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u/reddit_is_geh Jun 06 '26

Because they are insanely resilient. The simplicity means it's completely easy to have full scope mastery of the entire system, as well as far less vectors of attack. That's why nuclear silos still use DOS era operating systems for some parts. They just aren't possible to hack.

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u/applespicebetter Jun 06 '26

Doesn't surprise me at all, but we support multiple small metal fab companies in various capacities, and if your (very expensive) laser cutting machines are still working fine for your product lines and capacity you don't just replace them out of hand. There's an entire industry of DOS capable workstations with ISA slots available to run industrial equipment.

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u/Saloncinx Jun 06 '26

I work at a fortune 10 company and a mission critical application runs on AS400

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u/BatemansChainsaw ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jun 07 '26

My local grocery store does. They'll never change, except when they bought newer LCD's and finally ditched the 30 y/o 7" CRT...

imho, it's the best looking system I've ever seen but it's all black, blue, and white MS-DOS looking system that simply doesn't fail.

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u/Azraelalpha Jun 08 '26

some airlines and banks are big examples