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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The link is in french, however I have translated it and pasted that belo w. http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/11/11/une-panne-informatique-a - -l-aeroport-d-orly-liee-a-windows-3-1_4807479_4408996.html Une panne informatique à lâaÃroport dâOrly liÃe Ã... Windows 3.1 Translation A computer failure at the airport of Orly linked to ... Windows 3.1 Thousands of passengers - including the mayor of Bordeaux Alain Juppe - - have been nailed to the ground Saturday, November 7 at Orly airport. The cause: a computer failure affecting the tools weather of the airport, which has generated a general interruption of air traffic at departure and arrival of Orly for more than half an hour. We now know a little more about this malfunction. In its edition of Wednesday, November 11, Duck Chained specifies that the outage affected the Decor system (data dissemination of environment control of Orly and Roissy), connected to Weather France, and running ... under Windows 3.1 . An operating system more than 20 years old, launched by Microsoft in 1992 - an antiquity in the computing world. "Saturday morning, the traffic was not really dense. But imagine, during the COP21, the ballet of heads of State disrupted because of a computer software which date from prehistoric times. What is the air? ", Is concerned about an engineer quoted by the weekly. The Department of Transport has assured the newspaper that "the modernization of equipment is planned for 2017 ". I wonder what they will upgrade to in 2017 ... Paul - -- http://www.zleap.net t: @zleap14 diaspora : zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Documentation lead @ ToriOS http://www.torios.org Torbay Tech Jam http://torbaytechjam.org.uk Festival of Code 2016 1st - 5th August 2016 http://www.yrs.io -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlZEoVUACgkQaggq1k2FJq0jMQCdFG2RadkTK9n2DPI8dG03tGyi DyIAn1PxAhYbXlCToXibPuWNXvCKDtx9 =DDoj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq