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Devac  ·  2962 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You might not need javascript

    They were running software on Windows 95. This was in, I think 2013?

    IE6?

That's… I don't know. Baffling? Yeah, let's go with that.

To think that I was struggling with one of my professor's explanation why the university grid still offers (in parallel to Debian stable stack) some 'ancient' versions of compilers like Python 2.4 or GCC 3.2. Or why it took until 1996 to start using Fortran 90 instead of 77 and C99 was used instead of the ~ANSI only since 2007.

Why are so many institution opposed to upgrading? I get that the cost is nothing to sneeze at, but this just feels silly. What's next, Pentagon still using hub-based network infrastructure because this newfangled MAU are expensive? ;P