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Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] thefreepenguinalt@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why would an airplane need software updates?

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Modern planes are fly by wire, so you have a lot of software between the pilot and what the control surfaces are doing. It's pretty much inevitable that you'll have bugs and inefficiencies that get identified through use.