Aviation use X400 and X500 which is bank SMTP.

ICAO world is behind the curve yeah but not a century behind.

OPS tech is old protocols like X25 and X400 but on IP, not on serial cables and switches.

Networks are using fiber channels, servers are using VMs, kubernetes clusters and stuff like that. It’s old tech on modern hardware. Even the voice coms went full VOIP (at least for gnd-gnd com) during the last decade.

Yes we stay behind the tech curve on purpose, but FAA lagging so much behind the rest of the world is just another proof of their lack of investment.

I know it’s a rethorical question but from what I’ve seen they updated their “information display”.

In my country our equivalent is an in-house Java software running on Linux thin clients. The software basically shows meteorological information, runways status, airspace status and stuff like that, so it is connected to a network in order to receive those informations.

So I’m wondering why FAA used the floppy disks? Was it to update the information? MET is updated every 30 minutes, day and night. That’s a handful of manual updates to do…

PS: Their brand new "Enterprise Information Display System (E-IDS)” is what we do in Europe since, uhh, 30 years ?

Gabe will probably have it own by all of valve employees, so enshitification would be less likely.

Maybe I’m wrong but hey let me have some hope.