Most are not really in need of any updates I would think. Aside from some, I’d venture to guess these are standalone systems running machinery. If they’re linked up then it’s with something else that’s not really vulnerable such as Lantastic or Novell maybe? Or I could be talking out of my ass entirely. But these are not systems that they need to worry about the modern threats of cyberspace.
More like great great great grandpa, realistically. I think it’s absolutely commendable that anyone has maintained compatibility with it for this long. Expected? Hell no. Deserved? Arguable on either side. But mighty damn admirable that the effort was made.
The speed of tech in many sectors tends to just blast away and leave everything behind and say screw it, keep up of fuck off. The classic desktop architecture seems to be where they’ve held off of that mentality the longest and with most integrity.
I don’t really know why you’re asking it phrasing quite that way, but the Higgs Boson was discovered numerous years ago. You probably meant to say now that we have… it just read as though it was something yet to be achieved.
What’s so beautiful about it is that it was such a testament to the scientific method because it was established that it would have to exist to explain observed phenomena, and then it was identified. Oftentimes things are discovered and then explained/defined etc. but science can work to establish such reliable knowledge that we knew it had to be there, and then we found it. Kind of like some archaeological discoveries. Just some of the beauty of science.