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[–] bbqchipz ago 

Some of the most important, and absolutely cannot fail pieces of software was built with software compilers from the 70s. Why? Because It's more expensive to replace than maintain. Because It's not broken, it doesn't need fixed. Because It's harder to tamper with obsolete systems because other than people that built them, nobody know's how the fuck they work in a complete sense. Your naive understanding of what constitutes a performance improvement is uninformed.

It wouldn't be a far off guess to think that it could take longer to develop new equipment and certify it through the FAA than it would be to just keep using the floppy disk for another 10 years.

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[–] Usernamenameuser 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

If it ain't broke dont fix it.

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[–] HappyMealBullshit [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

That tiny little bit of performance improvement is worth the risk. I always upgrade.

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[–] Usernamenameuser 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Sometimes more tech is just more shit that can go wrong.

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[–] Goat7 2 points -2 points (+0|-2) ago 

It is the safest way to deliver the data. Floppy drives are so rare that noone can tamper with the data.

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[–] tmow 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The latest 747 variant has been built in 2001, so it's quite normal that it still uses floppies

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[–] daskapitalist ago 

Technical Debt: the curse of the Boomer.

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[–] offender ago 

Floppy disk readers are also much more simple as far as hardware+firmware.

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[–] NarrativeControl ago 

Not only that, they can be easily replaced with a floppy disk emulator (SD reader) if they use a standard FDD connector.

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[–] StanWildman ago 

This isn't so dumb if you think about it

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[–] SmokeyMeadow 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

At least they don't constantly crash land and kill everyone on board. Maybe the old ways really are best.

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