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Originally Posted by Richard Casto
I think it's not so much the old OS and software that as you say can be run in a VM, but associated legacy hardware connectors/adapters that either are not supported on modern hardware, or for whatever reason, don't work correctly when used via adapters (I.e. USB to whatever). For the McLaren F1 road car, it is a specific bespoke CA card that is the problem. Outside of Motorsports the problem is hardware dongles (usually as part of a copy protection scheme) that don't play nice with virtual adapters.
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recently we had a customer interested in buying a machine we haven't made for 20 years. we've got a spare unit kicking around in a test bay, but the software to power it doesn't work on modern computers (good luck finding a floppy drive to try installing it, for example), and the related techno-gubbins and controllers inside the control box aren't supported and wouldn't run anyway because there's no drivers for them...