Air Traffic Snafu: FAA System Runs Out of Memory

minstrelmike writes: Over the weekend, hundreds of flights were delayed or canceled in the Washington, D.C. area after air traffic systems malfunctioned. Now, the FAA says the problem was related to a recent software upgrade at a local radar facility. The software had been upgraded to display customized windows of reference data that were supposed to disappear once deleted. Unfortunately, the systems ended up running out of memory. The FAA's report is vague about whether it was operator error or software error: "... as controllers adjusted their unique settings, those changes remained in memory until the storage limit was filled." Wonder what programming language they used?

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Re:Software error ...

[Archangel Michael]

So, when Obama and the Dems controlled everything, when Clinton and the Dems controlled everything, and neither of them fixed the problem you describe as being "Reagan fired PATCO" (which has little or nothing to do with the code and systems today, being 30+ years ago), you still chose to blame something that can only be described as tangential to the current problem.

Good Job Leftwing nut job!