Originally Posted by
PAXboy
If you have a lot of computers on your aircraft and they all need to be talking to each other in sweetness and harmony, you will need the occaisonal Ctrl-Alt-Del.
An increasing problem across the transport world as standardised computing, yes, just plain Windows, gets put into more and more on-board areas (although not in the critical flight-control systems on the Airbus and similar, who very much do their own thing). Had a similar delay on a train which was stopped for 10 minutes to do this. The old retired train driver in the coach said to the conductor "this never happened in the days of steam locomotives .....".