airport shutdown

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:44:08PM -0500, Jerry McBride took 31 lines to write:
; 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...

s/Amazing/Criminal/

Kurt
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