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But lately, "Old Man XP," as the junior devs called it, had been acting up. The mouse cursor lagged a full second behind Linda’s movement. The screen resolution was stuck at 800x600, a fuzzy window into a fading world. And the clock—the VM’s clock—lost ten minutes every hour, causing the manifest timestamps to drift into chaos.

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Linda had always been afraid to touch it. The freight system had no installer disks, no vendor support—the company that made it went bankrupt in 2005. If the VM broke, the entire eastern seaboard’s shipping schedule would dissolve into a spreadsheet nightmare. But lately, "Old Man XP," as the junior