On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 5:43 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Dan Cross wrote:

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.

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.