airport shutdown

[Jerry McBride]

On Sunday 26 December 2004 06:49 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 14:38:20 -0800, Bob Hemus <bobhemus at sisqtel.net> wrote:
> > Do any of you knowledgeable folks know if the airport fiasco was a
> > Microsloth system?  Really be a shame if it were!!H  Ha!Ha1
>
> Just out of curiosity, what is/was "the airport fiasco." I live under
> a rock and don't watch TV news.

It was... the details escape my brain, but it was a windows box that ran a 
communications application. I recall that as part of it's monthly 
maintenance, it was to be rebooted so as to return the running application to 
a known state. For what ever reason, it failed to be rebooted at the 
scheduled time and lead to the failure... which avalanched into a complete 
crash of the airline computer systems on most of the west coast...

Amazing, trusting human lives to a windows box...

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