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Steve Ballmer did not write the text for the blue screen of death

• furyofantares 3y ago
  The comments at the end are marvelous.
  • zhte415 3y ago
    I get > 0 comments > Comments are closed. Login to edit/delete your existing comments
    • sparky_z 3y ago
      I presume they're referring, not to blog comments by visitors, but to Chen's own comments (or commentary, if you prefer) in the footnote at the end.
• nadermx 3y ago
  That was a wonderful read
• DieBruderBauer 3y ago
  Chen is a marvelous writer. Punchy sentences replete with wisdom.
• hulitu 3y ago
  > What was new in Windows 3.1 was a special handler for Ctrl+Alt+Del which tried to identify the program that was not responding and give you the opportunity to terminate it. This worked 1% of the time. Because of the cooperative multitasking in win 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98 and Me the usual way out of this was reset or power off. Sometimes pressing the Ctrl+Alt+DEL will reboot the computer.
  • guraf 3y ago
    > This worked 1% of the time. Because of the cooperative multitasking in win 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98 and Me the usual way out of this was reset or power off. Only Win 3.1 used cooperative multitasking (and only when running on a 286). All others used preemptive multitasking.
    • hulitu 3y ago
      I stand corrected.
    • s1gsegv 3y ago
      Windows 3.1 on a 386 used preemptive multitasking, yes, but only between Windows as a whole and other DOS programs you were running. Within Windows, win16 apps were cooperatively multitasked even on a 386.