During the 2023 Ice Cockey World Championship in Tampere it’s time to battle between the REAL hockey players. Who has the best shot for the trophy, not to mention bragging rights for life! Our professional eSports announcer will sure hype it up but bringing your friends to cheer is highly encouraged.
The definitive C64 Hat Trick Finnish Championship tournament takes place on 20th of May at ZBase, Tampere, Finland.
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But… isn’t it an Irish company?
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Some legacy systems just won’t die. Even when they are running on virtual machines running within virtual machines running in state-of-the-art bit barns. Sometimes it’s /360ies and COBOL all the way down.
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No wonder then. EBCDIC probably doesn’t have those characters in the set.
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Aer Lingus still uses the ASTRAL reservation system, which is nearly 60 years old.
Despite the legacy technology having multiple upgrades over time, the insular system, which is used exclusively by Aer Lingus, still doesn’t allow using current Unicode standard characters that were introduced in the 90s.
Speaking to The Irish Mirror, Aer Lingus said, “The Aer Lingus booking system, Astral, which was developed in the late 60s cannot facilitate the use of special characters as it was built on a platform which does not cater for special characters.
We recognise the limitations of the system with respect to accepting special characters and apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused”.
ETA:
ASTRAL stands for Advanced System of Telecommunications and Reservations for Aer Lingus.
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We’d call our cats with a very specific whistle.
The starlings liked it and adopted & adapted it into their calls. XD
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A monster all right! I too wouldn’t have gotten all that close to it.
I wonder if it has three eyes?
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A multiverse of multiple Zathrasi? Awesome.
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