Windows 3.1 Is Still Alive, And It Just Killed a French Airport
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https://news.vice.com/article/windows-31-is-still-alive-and-it-just-killed-a-french-airport
A computer glitch that brought the Paris airport of Orly to a standstill Saturday has been traced back to the airport's "prehistoric" operating system. In an article published Wednesday, French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné (which often writes serious stories, such as this one) said the computer failure had affected a system known as DECOR, which is used by air traffic controllers to communicate weather information to pilots. Pilots rely on the system when weather conditions are poor.
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Remind me not to fly there....
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At least it is hard to hack since most of the hackers are too young to realize what they are even looking at!
