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I played with windows 1.0 back in late 1983

Fun fact: Clear Channel radio stations were still using Windows 3.1 on their automation PC's until at least 2003!

 

[jayn_j]

Fun fact: Clear Channel radio stations were still using Windows 3.1 on their automation PC's until at least 2003!

Not surprised. I was still supporting hp9825 io issues until I left Colorado in 2007.
Industrial apps tend to be very long lived. When a control app is working, you don't risk changing things if at all possible.
When I was running the business, we took on some contracts to provide board test for a 80286 military system in 2005.
Aerospace is even worse. A major platform can take a decade or more to develop and NOTHING can be updated. A good example is the Airbus A400 project. We did the data network including component data loading for that one. When the project was defined, they chose a state of the art media which was a 2Gb PCMCIA card. By the time the aircraft went operational in 2012 we were forced to buy used cards off ebay. We could not use usb memory, even though it was present on the commercial laptops we were using for user interface. Real effort to find laptops with PCMCIA slots as well.
The reality is that the consumer market runs on a much shorter time line and anyone who is setting up commercial, military or especially aerospace components is going to be negotiating for lifetime buys for all projected product plus maintenance spares.