Flight chaos as airport admits its air traffic control PCs still run Windows 3.1

[mozart123]

Nervous flyers probably shouldn’t read this – Orly airport in France recently saw dozens of flights grounded, and admitted that the problem stemmed from the fact that air traffic controllers were using Windows 3.1.
For the unininitiated, Windows 3.1 is from the early Nineties and – you’d think – barely capable of running a cash machine, let alone an air traffic control system.
The delays began on Saturday November after the system broke down – and the secretary general of a French air traffic controller union said the problem was with air-traffic software running on Windows 3.1.


Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/16/flight-chaos-as-airport-admits-its-air-traffic-control-pcs-still-run-windows-3-1-5505950/#ixzz3rua6fpwL

[sonicassault]

That's dangerous. I mean, it's Microsoft software. It's not like that really small OS they load up in spaceships no bigger than what, a couple of MB.


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