By 3monkeys
via osweekly.com
Published: Sep 26 2006 / 10:46
If you mention the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to a Windows user, they will probably begin to sigh and groan, and they may even shudder at the very thought of seeing one of these horrific images on their computer monitor. If you haven't experienced a Blue Screen of Death yet, then you're not a true Windows user.
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Comments
bloid replied ago:
Hopefully Vista will reduce the number of times you see the BSOD... It's a legacy problem with Windows I believe where originally drivers were supposed to sit in User Mode, but this was found to be too slow so they were moved into Kernel Mode... Of course the down side of this is that a badly written driver will bring down the whole kernel with a BSOD... Vista is supposed to have moved many drivers back into User Mode, but they have apparently got round the previous speed issues...
ilazarte replied ago:
I haven't gotten a bsod since windows 98... In fact, the only times I've crashed on XP has had to do with hardware failures. Besides 1 or 2 spastic viral infections, XP has been so solid, I'll be a little slower moving to Vista :)
andyoliveira replied ago:
So, if I understood this well, the sorry state of (plural) operating systems is the fact that back in the nineties, Windows showed a lot of BSODs?
"Among other places, I've personally seen the Blue Screen of Death in airports and on ATM machines. In addition, my home PC became a haven for them back in the Windows 95 and 98 days," says the author. Personally. Yeah, right:
http://daimyo.org/node/243
http://www.pcsympathy.com/gate.html?name=gallery2&g2_itemId=1273
"...in typical Apple style, recent versions are much more attractive and helpful than those that are offered up from the competition. To top it all off, the message is even displayed in multiple languages," he goes again. How can a screen that is actually a freaken static bitmap be more helpful? (As if users didn't already know to reboot the computer when it hangs.)
http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter5/panic/
Jesus, anyone can write about "the sorry state of operating systems" now.
3monkeys replied ago:
I really hadn't thought about it that much, but the article expose the fact that there are a lot of commercial appliances that still use Win98 or even Win95. Everything from kiosk to P.O.S. terminals (that's Point-of-sale). A little more than disconcerting at the least.
Lowell Heddings replied ago:
I've already gotten a blue screen of death on Vista. Of course, I was running it in a virtual machine, but still.
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