Global IT Outage

[3 jabber]

Just think - nuclear submarines still run their computer systems on Windows 95.

Where did you get that information from?

 

[Imurg]

Where did you get that information from?

He could tell you but then he'd have to kill you......

 

[Alan Clifford]

Read this today: In 2010 McAffe caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz. Now he is CEO of crowdstrike.

 

[jim8flog]

Where did you get that information from?

something on the box some years ago. It was also said that a few government systems still run older versions of Windows for stability reasons.

Back in my working days the company run one of their main systems on a mainframe that used Cobol . It did what was required an no need to spend the money on a new system.
When the year was going to change to 2000 a lot of old cCobol and Fortran engineers/programmers earnt loads of money updating the software to cope.

 

[3 jabber]

something on the box some years ago. It was also said that a few government systems still run older versions of Windows for stability reasons.

Back in my working days the company run one of their main systems on a mainframe that used Cobol . It did what was required an no need to spend the money on a new system.
When the year was going to change to 2000 a lot of old cCobol and Fortran engineers/programmers earnt loads of money updating the software to cope.

I used to fix the DEC systems that were used on RN submarines.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Where did you get that information from?

Initially the Typhoons had Windows 95 for a lot of the data processing etc and licenses were extended for a while due to Italy I believe but that changed early days

Some of the early helo systems had some level of windows

 

[4LEX]

Bloody labour government, been in power ten minutes and the world has already got in trouble.

Two riots on their watch with weak Policing too....

 

[rulefan]

something on the box some years ago. It was also said that a few government systems still run older versions of Windows for stability reasons.

Back in my working days the company run one of their main systems on a mainframe that used Cobol . It did what was required an no need to spend the money on a new system.
When the year was going to change to 2000 a lot of old cCobol and Fortran engineers/programmers earnt loads of money updating the software to cope.

Which in fact they didn't need to to. Most of my systems used IBM Autocode, PL1 or Cobol and didn't need any modification. We didn't use fortran.

 

[pendodave]

Some of our trains run on Windows CE...
I hope that our nuclear submarines are more reliable.

 

[rulefan]

Some of our trains run on Windows CE...
I hope that our nuclear submarines are more reliable.

Apparently MS withdrew support for CE last year.

 

[jim8flog]

Which in fact they didn't need to to. Most of my systems used IBM Autocode, PL1 or Cobol and didn't need any modification. We didn't use fortran.

I think the primary problem was that companies used a 2 digit year so had to change to a 4 digit year.

 

[rulefan]

I think the primary problem was that companies used a 2 digit year so had to change to a 4 digit year.

I think many didn't realise that dates were in fact converted behind the scenes to a number expressed as the number of days since the first day of AD. So many companies wasted money on working out how to tackle a problem that didn't in fact exist or at least was not as difficult as thought. Many consultants made good money out of it.

 

[Alan Clifford]

I hope to be arround at 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January, 2038 but I probably won't last until 06:28:15 UTC on 7th February, 2106.