5 Feb
2018
5 Feb
'18
9:40 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 5:43 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Dan Cross wrote:
If by BSOD you mean, "Blue Screen of Death", which was NT's crash-dump
indicator then yes: I'm totally serious. I'd find a computer crashing on an
airplane frightening (I mean, I'm imagining that it does something
important).
- Dan C.
Amusingly, I have a device in my airplane
that runs NT4 without
any Windows graphical API on it. You can see the thing printing
the NT4 startup and build number when you power it on and it will
BSOD.
BSOD on an airplane? That sounds kind of scary.
Dunno if you're joking or not, but if you're serious then yes, NT starts
up with a nice bright blue screen and some gibberish, and to log on you
have to "CTL/ALT/DEL". Yes, really... I did not endear myself to my
Windoze-loving cow-orkers when I commented that a) it comes with its own
BSOD, and b) you have to reboot it to log on.