The corporate IT magazine ‘Baseline’ has a sprawling, somewhat uneven, but nonetheless fascinating article related to the spectacular August 26th system failure of the National Airspace Data Interchange Network (NADIN) site in Atlanta. One interesting tidbit: the existing mainframe hardware — in use continuously since 1988 — was actually first manufactured in the 1960s and later upgraded in 1981.
There’s also a fairly technical discussion about security, which — while mostly over our head — is relevant given that the article characterizes the “corrupt file” that apparently caused the August failure as a virus.
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