lopez1364 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I was on a flight back with Continental Airlines from South America when my seat monitor had to be reset and I was very pleased to see tuxedo penguin staring at me telling me everything was gonna be alright. A note to those other O/S's; you want to impress me then do it at 30,000 feet in the air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Some airlines still use Windows 3.1 for basic menu systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Rather than having any interest in trying to spark an OS war (as DarkBlueBox mentioned, Windows has been used in such systems too), I'm more curious about the hardware in those systems. All I can really see in those screenshots is reference to some form of flash storage and ethernet, but I can only begin to guess at what else is in there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wh1t3 and n3rdy Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Did you know the nuclear submarines run 95/98 and some windows 200? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Did you know the nuclear submarines run 95/98 and some windows 200? A lot of power plants still run Win98 on their control computers. Also a lot of atm machines are running OS2 Warp. Hey beakmyn, what's the oldest os you've seen large systems running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGRIM Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 We still run a IBM AS400, it's 25+ years old... it scares the shit out of me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshan Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 We run win 98 on our Order system thing at work. (I work in a kitchen) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charm_quark Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 i was wondering where most of you guys worked and where you got this information,,, but lol when seshan said the kitchen, i understood :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetwork Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Saw a client about 2 years ago who had his conversion server running basic and no it wasn't a emulator....had a old commodore64 system and said that it worked great for years and years. Fought me to give it up when the drive failed and did pay $750.00 for data recovery and restoration. All i could say was WOW! I also am very interested in what other goodies were loaded on that plane o/s...muhahaaha While searching for a clip from the TV show alias i found this in relevance :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4yABv0hbg8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 If it works, why pay thousands for a brand new system to do the same job? Especially wasteful if it involves many many machines, and unnecessary cost in either scenario. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jobdone Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 We still run a IBM AS400, it's 25+ years old... it scares the shit out of me. yeah we still run AS400 too as did tesco the other day when I was in there.. and another local supermarket I know of. I know it's old but it works and to be fair it's quite a locked down system too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssmithisme Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Mc Donalds runs a custom version of windows 98. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGRIM Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 yeah we still run AS400 too as did tesco the other day when I was in there.. and another local supermarket I know of. I know it's old but it works and to be fair it's quite a locked down system too. I had to pick a parcel up from UPS and I noticed they had one or two black and green screens I recognised Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcat Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 These are also in Jack in the Box and Burger Kings on their monitors.. ;) Knoppix status Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkside92 Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 thats pretty epic i would love to see linux boot up 30,000 feet in the air <3 the self check machines in walmart run xp and the baby registring service station at target (sat there and watched a worker try to get the blue screen of death off with out a keyborad or access the the accual machine xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanquish.security Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Delta also uses Linux for there In Flight Entertainment menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beakmyn Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 A lot of power plants still run Win98 on their control computers. Also a lot of atm machines are running OS2 Warp. Hey beakmyn, what's the oldest os you've seen large systems running? AS 400 We're replacing a plant that runs on Mod 300 (circa 1984). Yep the whole plant runs off this one machine. It pre-dates the AS400. I've got a another client that is still running DOS, NT4, Win 3.1 @Wetwork. Listening to the pilots on the earphones is not a hack. It's announced by the flight attendents! "If you'd like to listen to the air crew conversation it's on channel 9. However it is as the discretion of the pilot to turn it on or off" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcninja Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 AS 400 We're replacing a plant that runs on Mod 300 (circa 1984). Yep the whole plant runs off this one machine. It pre-dates the AS400. I've got a another client that is still running DOS, NT4, Win 3.1 @Wetwork. Listening to the pilots on the earphones is not a hack. It's announced by the flight attendents! "If you'd like to listen to the air crew conversation it's on channel 9. However it is as the discretion of the pilot to turn it on or off" which is basically saying "if shit goes down and the headphone goes silent, youll know" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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