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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Syndic@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago

Well yes. You can code software remotely. That doesn't mean the end system is reachable through the network. Given it's DB, I bet these systems are still patched by floppy. Until very recently they've used floppy's to distribute train schedules to be displayed in the train.