Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
by fbdab103 on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:30PM
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That is a tremendously fun fact! The little background things that keep society running. May I never be cursed enough I would ever have to directly work with such a system.
Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
by ShredKazoo on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:39PM
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I wonder if it will ever go away.
Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
by noisy_boy on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @12:40AM
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Even if this incident is the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back, the migration itself would be a multi-year project.
Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
by rippercushions on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @01:52AM
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I don't think SABRE has anything to do with Southwest's outage.
Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
by xeromal on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @01:03AM
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It'll probably never go away, but just be layered over like civilizations. Eventually our software is probably going to get so complicated that we just build new software to interact with old software to avoid ever fully shutting it down. Like building a fresh highway on the oregon trail
Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
by dredmorbius on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:57PM
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And it's mainframe / COBOL, not DOS, which post-dates it by about a decade and a half.
It's not even an ASCII text app, but an EBCDIC one. Or was after EBCDIC was defined as a standard, after SABRE itself launched.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(travel_reservation_syst...