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jamesdhutton ◴[] No.46197832[source]
Genuine question, not being sarcastic: why would someone want/need these downloads?
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1. iberator ◴[] No.46203490[source]
Imagine you have a 2m$ spectroscope or offset printing machine running windows xp.
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2. numpad0 ◴[] No.46204636[source]
And it's not worth risking Windows 11 destroying it by slamming the irreplaceable robotic stuff into itself in such ways that NASA or NTSB would find fancy UI animations or virtualization based security culpable. You may insist that programs that control airplanes and nuclear reactors are supposed to be written in Rust + TypeScript on daily updated Linux installation that depends on AWS us-east-1, but they would insist it ain't stupid if it works.