that’s why you run linux under the hood and virtualize the NT box on equipment like that. then they can have NT forever…
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I can have NT forever. In my heart. 
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That may be in fact what they ended up doing (but i think even getting the NT install files to put on VM was hard). It got fixed just a couple weeks after i left, but i don’t know what exactly happened.
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yeah, definitely helps if you perform that work preemptively…rather than when the NT box quits on you.
they had a femto-second spectrophotometer at Berkeley that was still being run by a Mac 512k in 2000 when I wandered off to support a lab rather than the department.
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