Mike ShewardOh I see, y’all are giddy when NASA keeps Voyager 2 running for decades longer than expected, but when the tech from the local water treatment plant does the same with a Windows 98 machine, suddenly that’s a “massive problem”
Jonathan Katz@SecureOwl if it ain't broke...
tostador@SecureOwl this is modern OT ;)
Travis@SecureOwl the difference is VxWorks
AMS@SecureOwl On one hand you have greybeard acolytes lovingly tending a few kloc of fortran running on nearly bespoke rad-hard, error corrected hardware with libraries worth of fmea.
On the other hand you have at best one or two guys crufting together discount beigeboxes running millions of lines of code written with no thought of failure-modes or corner cases.