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Re:How Air-Traffic Controllers Sound When They Have to Close... by frandroid on Saturday March 07, 2015 @03:04PM (#9162920)
If the systems suddenly die, they don't have time to consult a printout, they need to KNOW which planes to shuffle off or else there will be accidents; reading the information off a printout is way too slow. If the system RAM dies, the humans are the effective backup RAM.
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