[WaylonKenning]

I used to work for a Power Company, that had a hydroelectric dam. There were sensors in the dam that needed Windows 98 to read data from. I remember we ended up having a fleet of old Asus Eee PCs specifically for that, that obviously never ever ever connected to the Internet, or really any network.

[C1sc0cat]

What where they connected to GIPB ? or some other instrumentation interfaces?

[Tepix]

Did you try virtualisation?

[cool-RR]

ReactOS is the answer.

[ddalex]

The answer to the question How can I most easily break mission-critical systems using half-baked software?

ReactOS is for hobbists that don't mind if their toy OS crashes every 3 minutes or so.

[Gracana]

Give it to 'em, man. Real engineers maintain their mission-critical systems by running their obsolete software on obsolete budget consumer PCs.

[jason0597]

ReactOS really sounds promising for these specific areas and I hope it gets better and better with time, it's just a shame that it's development cycle is slow right now though I understand it's hard to reverse engineer Windows

[Piskvorrr]

Not to Windows 98; IIRC ReactOS strives for compatibility with the Windows NT tech tree.