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What do they call a software crash? Rapid unscheduled termination?
by CodesInChaos 4mo ago
What do they call a software crash? Rapid unscheduled termination?
- boisterousness 4mo agoThey call it a FLOP (Functional Loss Of Performance, or something like that), I was told on a tour of an FAA ATC computer facility.
- JdeBP 4mo agoAviation aside, it is worthwhile remembering that IBM traditionally had a whole other jargon vocabulary for computing. A 'crash' was an ABEND, an abnormal end.