United Airlines Domestic Flights Grounded for 2 Hours by Computer Outage

Re:United Airlines Domestic Flights Grounded for 2 Hours by ... by mactyler on Sunday January 22, 2017 @09:05PM (#13459133)

Stuck on ground in plane at ORD, just got an update that the "mainframes" are starting to come back online.

EDIT: We're now about to take off.

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Re:United Airlines Domestic Flights Grounded for 2 Hours by ... by cydonian_monk on Sunday January 22, 2017 @09:10PM (#13459160)

While in this case they probably are actual mainframes, at my firm we use the term to refer to the VMs running in tiny boxes that replaced what once were also mainframes.

Sometimes the language outlives the hardware.

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Re:United Airlines Domestic Flights Grounded for 2 Hours by ... by hindsightbias on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:34AM (#13460299)

Uh, they aren't using mainframes.

10:1, Linux fail.

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Re:United Airlines Domestic Flights Grounded for 2 Hours by ... by pc86 on Monday January 23, 2017 @08:20AM (#13461965)

They most certainly are. The primary systems running all the major US airlines are all mainframe at least in part.

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