A German railway company becomes a hot topic after posting a job offer for a Windows 3.11 administrator.
A job offer for a Windows 3.11 administrator posted by a German railway company on the recruitment service GULP has become a hot topic. In Germany, Windows 3.11 continues to be used in the operation system of
Project Remote: Windows 3.11 Administrator (m/f/d) in 91058 Erlangen | Projects at GULP
https://www.gulp.de/gulp2/g/projekte/agentur/C00929028 (Internet Archive)
Remote: Windows 3.11 Administrator (m/f/d) | Hacker News
MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 still run train dashboards at German railway — company listed admin job for 30-year-old operating system | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/ms-dos-and-windows-311-still-run-train-dashboards-at-german-railway-company-listed-admin-job-for-30- year-old-operating-system
According to the job posting posted to GULP, in addition to looking for skills to handle Windows 3.11 and
The system in charge has a 166MHz CPU and 8MB of memory.
According to konkretor, who calls himself a silicon enthusiast, German railways are still operating on this type of legacy OS nationwide.
Do you have MS DOS and Windows 3.11 skills?
— konkretor (@konkretor) January 27, 2024
I have a job for you https://t.co/vcAitUnvbZ
between you and me, we are talking about the german railway display boards for almost all of germany. There are still running with legacy os. pic.twitter.com/VJJsbMcbGT
This incident has also become a hot topic on the social news site Hacker News.
Mr. NamTaf, who works for a railway company, said that the locomotive's driver interface runs on Windows XP, and that he had asked the supplier for functional improvements and changes, but since it has already been discontinued, he is using the Windows XP version of the code. It states that no changes were made and that they were asked to move to a QNX-based system.
The high-speed trains ICE and ICE 2 also use this type of legacy system, and ICE 2 is expected to remain in service until at least 2030, according to tauchunfall .
In addition, since it is known that German trains do not always come on time, s0k0l said , ``I understand why the trains don't always come on time.It's because they are waiting until Windows 3.11 is loaded.'' ” he quipped.
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