Really? You're still running operating systems that are a decade old on hardware even older?
Why?
10 years is not that long ago. In computers and software the difference between 2022 and 2012 is not as big as it was between 1992 and 2002.
It's still an immense period of technology time - OS and hardware vendors don't support their products "forever": it's not sane to do so
Run 10-year-old hardware/OS if you want ... but you should expect increasing issues over time
The really old programs run in emulators. This is how I play 1980s video games. I highly recommend Mario Brothers (not "Super") from 1983. Still works.
The point is that software should remain usable, but in your example that hasn’t been the case.
Apple did Rosetta in 2006. That proves this approach has been _commercially_ viable on top-end machines for at least 15 years. Not 39 years!
