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To: tbw2

My goodness, how old is a computer that came with XP. How much money do you have wrapped up in it?

Is it a heart lung machine running on XP? Take that computer off the grid and run XP infinitum.


20 posted on 03/15/2014 8:34:20 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
My goodness, how old is a computer that came with XP. How much money do you have wrapped up in it?

I'm running a 2007-ish vintage laptop dualbooting Win7 and Ubuntu 13.10. The XP license on the bottom is irrelevant. It runs fine. Money wrapped up in it is a replacement 500gb hard disk, that could move to a new machine in a heartbeat.

Is it a heart lung machine running on XP? Take that computer off the grid and run XP infinitum.

XP Embedded has a different end-of-life date than XP. And I wouldn't be remotely surprised to find old software running on medical equipment. Old and tested is better here than bleeding edge.

35 posted on 03/15/2014 10:50:18 AM PDT by Lee N. Field (I beat wasp nests with a stick for fun.)
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