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The Machines on the Factory Floor Are Running Software Nobody Supports
Industrial equipment outlives its control software by decades. Patching it means stopping production, and the vendor that wrote it may no longer exist.
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The Trillion-Dollar Rewrite Nobody Can Postpone
The systems running banks, insurers, states and hospitals are older than the people maintaining them. The modernization wave has finally started, forced by retirements rather than ambition.