Software has incredible inertia compared to hardware.

It is effectively trivial to buy millions of dollars of hardware to upgrade your stuff when compared with paying for existing software to be rewritten for a new platform.

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oasisaimlessly 6 hours ago | parent [-]

This is a very SWE-centric perspective. The very names of software/hardwsre would imply the exact opposite.

	▲	marcosdumay 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Has the last industrial hardware you've seen updated to use protected memory like most controllers have been able to for a few decades? Or better, its drivers run in what Windows version?