Comment on Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code.
SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
So this code likely generated the very first blue screen of death.
Comment on Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code.
SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
So this code likely generated the very first blue screen of death.
davidgro@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What is this “blue” you mention? That’s not green Or amber!
Seriously though, errors in native code back then would either freeze the system or just spontaneously reboot, either way no time to display a reason. (Although the BASIC interpreter would at least try to say what happened with errors in BASIC code.)