Unlike today’s subscription models, PLAXIS 2D 8.6 was sold as a perpetual license. Many firms still have a legacy dongle for 8.6 running on an isolated virtual machine.
A standard Windows XP or Windows 7 machine with 2GB of RAM and a single-core processor ran 8.6 flawlessly. Engineers could run parametric studies overnight without a high-performance cluster. plaxis 2d 8.6