If you've never tried to install Linux on an Old World Mac (any PowerPC,PCI based mac older than a Blue and White G3 or iMac G3) then you're in for a treat. Think slamming your balls in a car door fun. Almost all the modern Linux distributions have dropped support for BootX (the MacOS Linux loader) and Oldworld machines. Why not boot from Openfirmware you ask? Because it flat dosen't f*****g work. The details of why escape me, and I don't care enough to look it up. Throw hardware upgrades into the mix (like a modern IDE controller, and a decent graphics card) and really pull your hair out. Needless to say, I dumped the Powermac 6400 off at the recycling center years ago, picked up a cheap, stripped and working Blue and White G3 and never looked back.
Tektronix 453, serial 13084. No idea on the date (1960ish), but its a beauty of analog engineering. I use it to troubleshoot my basket case 7603, which is gathering dust waiting for me to get around to cleaning off the work bench. I don't use it for anything that requires exact measurement, as it tends to drift quite a bit.
Sabre is a multitude of software products, for lack of a better definition. They include RES, DECS, TIM, BMAS and a couple of others that I can't remember.
All Sabre applications are text mode, no GUI whatsoever... think CLI from hell, with no command history if you fat finger an entry.
The system that went down was probably DECS (Dispatch Environment Control System), which is the system used by both American and USAir for generating flight plans, load planning, weight and balance, and various other flight operations functions.
RES is the Reservations system, which covers the spectrum from building reservations and selling tickets, to customer checkin, boarding and god knows what else. IIRC, it will even do car rentals and hotels.
TIM is also called Timatic. Its used for accessing information from the US State Department regarding internation travel to any country, from any country in the world. It covers entry and exit requirements, documentation, and pretty much anything you could want to know.
I don't remember what BMAS stands for, but it is a lost bag tracking and reporting system. When AA or US looses your luggage, this is what they use to find it.
Sabre is used by a whole variety of airlines and travel agencies, and is customised in modules to each particular user's needs.
Now you are probably wondering how I know all this... I work for a major airline that uses a majority of the systems listed above, with the exception of the Dispatch system. We were not affected by whatever snafu took down that portion of Sabre:)
These guys are amateurs compared to Mark Nye of Nye Thermodynamics. I realize the page is a little old, but homebuilt gas turbines aren't exactly high tech till you get up to the FADEC systems of commercial jetliners
http://www.nyethermodynamics.com/
Off topic: Ooo... lets slashdot the server to oblivion. It's got MOVIES!
Just wondering were you got the impression that ATA(formally American Trans Air) was dangerous? They have an excellent safety record, and no crashes to date. Unless you're thinking of AirTran Airways, the airline formally known as Valuejet that crashed into a swamp?
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If you've never tried to install Linux on an Old World Mac (any PowerPC,PCI based mac older than a Blue and White G3 or iMac G3) then you're in for a treat. Think slamming your balls in a car door fun. Almost all the modern Linux distributions have dropped support for BootX (the MacOS Linux loader) and Oldworld machines. Why not boot from Openfirmware you ask? Because it flat dosen't f*****g work. The details of why escape me, and I don't care enough to look it up. Throw hardware upgrades into the mix (like a modern IDE controller, and a decent graphics card) and really pull your hair out. Needless to say, I dumped the Powermac 6400 off at the recycling center years ago, picked up a cheap, stripped and working Blue and White G3 and never looked back.
Tektronix 453, serial 13084. No idea on the date (1960ish), but its a beauty of analog engineering. I use it to troubleshoot my basket case 7603, which is gathering dust waiting for me to get around to cleaning off the work bench. I don't use it for anything that requires exact measurement, as it tends to drift quite a bit.
Anyone know if the sun4m line of hardware is going to be supported?
Sabre is a multitude of software products, for lack of a better definition. They include RES, DECS, TIM, BMAS and a couple of others that I can't remember.
:)
All Sabre applications are text mode, no GUI whatsoever... think CLI from hell, with no command history if you fat finger an entry.
The system that went down was probably DECS (Dispatch Environment Control System), which is the system used by both American and USAir for generating flight plans, load planning, weight and balance, and various other flight operations functions.
RES is the Reservations system, which covers the spectrum from building reservations and selling tickets, to customer checkin, boarding and god knows what else. IIRC, it will even do car rentals and hotels.
TIM is also called Timatic. Its used for accessing information from the US State Department regarding internation travel to any country, from any country in the world. It covers entry and exit requirements, documentation, and pretty much anything you could want to know.
I don't remember what BMAS stands for, but it is a lost bag tracking and reporting system. When AA or US looses your luggage, this is what they use to find it.
Sabre is used by a whole variety of airlines and travel agencies, and is customised in modules to each particular user's needs.
Now you are probably wondering how I know all this... I work for a major airline that uses a majority of the systems listed above, with the exception of the Dispatch system. We were not affected by whatever snafu took down that portion of Sabre
These guys are amateurs compared to Mark Nye of Nye Thermodynamics. I realize the page is a little old, but homebuilt gas turbines aren't exactly high tech till you get up to the FADEC systems of commercial jetliners
http://www.nyethermodynamics.com/
Off topic: Ooo... lets slashdot the server to oblivion. It's got MOVIES!
Just wondering were you got the impression that ATA(formally American Trans Air) was dangerous? They have an excellent safety record, and no crashes to date. Unless you're thinking of AirTran Airways, the airline formally known as Valuejet that crashed into a swamp?