From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 09:43:28 +1100 (EST) 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, 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. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."