Just saw a video and certain instruments/displays on trains (original ICE 3 for example) run with Windows 3.11, so thats probably why they are searching for one
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
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It’s the only way to keep the trains free from cylon interference.
Battletrain Deutchlandica
Eventually AI’s gonna be so cheap, someone reading this thread could just be like “eh fuck let’s see if the first episode is good” and then just paste that comment into a website somewhere, wait ten seconds, and click the big play button next to “Season 1, Episode 1”
I know a guy fitted for the job. He's well versed in MS-DOS, Win 3.1, 3.11 etc. Hell, he's even fluent in German, but he's due a hip and knee replacement this month...
That's all I'm gonna say.
Good luck with the robot joints!
C:>WIN
Based
Let's hope the salary is decent.
If it were a private company I’d bet it was astronomical. But I don’t know about the German government though, it’s hard to say.
It's a private company... and the salary is not gonna be great.
Germany doesn't pay wages
The Federal Government is the sole owner of DB AG.
Since its foundation in 1994, Deutsche Bahn (DB AG) has been a public limited company and accordingly has a dual management and control structure. It is wholly owned by the federal government. The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) is responsible for managing the shareholding.
Shareholders gonna sharehold.
If it works, don't change it!
Yeah, that's kinda the problem
The secret is to develop your software, then fire all the developers. Then it never changes again!
Come to think of it keeping developers on staff, and familiar with the codebase enough to debug it efficiently, almost guarantees they’re gonna be adding new features. “Well we’ve got this talent sitting around …” and then it’s new features and ….
I mean I guess this is evidence they’ve managed to isolate themselves from dependencies they don’t control. It’s the external dependencies updating and losing support that causes at least the minimum of codebase maintenance.
The fact they’ve stayed on this older platform indicates they’ve managed to avoid that constant upgrading. Because if any part of the system has to upgrade, it tends to pull the rest of the system with it.
This gem requires this version of ruby requires this operating system etc.
Or maybe they’ve isolated the parts really well and this is just some window3.11 container that’s one of a hundred services.
I’d love to go back to tech without the constant insomnia and panic attacks.
Thats the reason, why they have Problems to find drivers (If you know, what i mean) 😜
At least it's not windows 8.