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Comment on Ask HN: What software do you miss that no longer runs on modern hardware?

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FTP itself mostly deprecated because not secure.

I spend most of my work time in a terminal shell connected to a Linux server, very similar to what I used 40 years ago.

Many (most?) banking systems run on SFTP today.

They used FTP heavily at a point too. I remember transferring batch wire transfer instructions by exposing a tsv file on a particular FTP server. The only security was obfuscation, it could have been bad but never was so it felt secure.

Not using a MacOS desktop FTP client, which is what the OP misses.

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