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CodesInChaos
11 days ago
What do they call a software crash? Rapid unscheduled termination?
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JdeBP
10 days ago
Aviation aside, it is worthwhile remembering that IBM traditionally had a whole other jargon vocabulary for computing. A 'crash' was an ABEND, an abnormal end.
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boisterousness
11 days ago
They call it a FLOP (Functional Loss Of Performance, or something like that), I was told on a tour of an FAA ATC computer facility.
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