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Comment by CodesInChaos

10 hours ago

What do they call a software crash? Rapid unscheduled termination?

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JdeBP  8 minutes 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.

boisterousness  8 hours 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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