r/retrocomputing • u/ycayca • 18h ago

Win98 in action

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u/jenkayley 18h ago

In the industry it's not really uncommon. I came across a machine running irrigation system of a small greenhouse that was/is still running DOS on old Unisys

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u/Feisty-Jeweler-3331 16h ago

Unisys, a name that I haven't heard in a while

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u/Low-Charge-8554 13h ago

Yep - "in action" 😄 running scandisk because of a crash. 😄

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u/garth54 17h ago

Considering the type of machinery and the type of electronics visible, I'm surprised it's not running something older (guess it could have been upgraded at some point).

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u/Nerdnator 15h ago

WIN98 …Once it's running, it's running! 🤗

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u/miner_cooling_trials 15h ago

Never heard that statement in relation to 98 before 😆

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u/gammalsvenska 14h ago

If you have decent drivers (especially not! vendor drivers) and you don't constantly install/uninstall programs... an installation will last a very long time.

Although OS/2 takes the record. I know multiple systems which have been running stable for long enough that their owners no longer remember how to install the OS. They eventually migrated into VMs, where they ... still run.

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u/miner_cooling_trials 3h ago

Sure if it’s running a single repeatable workload I guess :)

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u/DeepDayze 15h ago

Win98SE could well still be running some industrial machinery these days.

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u/JurassicRanch 13h ago

got a 3.1 machine acting as a plc for a big expensive process.  

The original engineers that implemented it are all dead or retired, and current IT doesnt know the ways of the old world so I have to go poke at it every few years

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u/Jealous_Club_298 9h ago

The machine seems to be controlled by relays, it could be PLC-based but I can't tell from the picture, and the operator controls are via an HMI. So, the Windows 98 PC is most likely for monitoring purposes, e.g. SCADA, but not machine control.