From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 22:40:09 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Windows roots and Unix influence (was Re: Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!) In-Reply-To: References: <20180204091435.GA22841@indra.papnet.eu> <00d001d39ddc$a069a380$e13cea80$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 5:43 PM, Dave Horsfall 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: