thousands passengers were sitting last Saturday at Orly Airport in Paris firmly. Now came a piquant detail to light: The reason was a computer running Windows 3.1, which runs for 23 years.
A PC with the operating system Windows 3.1 stone old was responsible for the failure, the daily newspaper “Le Monde” reported, citing the Ministry of Transport.
Thus, running on the affected computer software in 1992, which requires the Tower for the transmission of weather data to the pilots on the runway. The hardware comes after presentation of the newspaper from the early 90s
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software glitch with consequences
Examples of software glitches at the airport there would be abound, but airports and airlines are reluctant to move out with information about the exact reasons for the disabled.
The French Ministry of Transport announced plans to replace the ailing software, the paper quoted a spokesman. This was planned for 2017 but could be delayed until of 2019.
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