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Comment Re:No need to be outraged yet (Score 1) 81

the teams recently had to go manually update the firmware on over 3000 perfusion pumps.
it's no exaggeration to say that any failure to do so, for whatever reason is life threatening.
we intend to replace them with ones that can be managed over the network but these old ones have been mechanically rock-solid for over 15 years & the replacements would be at least $2k each.

Comment Re:No need to be outraged yet (Score 3, Informative) 81

"eliminating Prolific drivers"
if you mean USB-to-serial, there was a point I was ready to go Luigi on Nadella. Our onsite & med eng teams who maintain a large number of legacy devices that can't easily be replaced have struggled to find & keep adapters working especially when their laptops get replaced every few years.

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