Post AORItgrHZA25R4Yhoe by tayledras@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #AORDG9AQOcDnsapypE by enigmatico@fedi.absturztau.be
       2022-10-10T22:18:27.526364Z
       
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       I love when I do something hardware related in a PCem virtual machine, and the whole program crashes and closes unexpectedly. Makes me wonder what would have happened if it was a real machine. Would the computer blow up or something?
       
 (DIR) Post #AORItgrHZA25R4Yhoe by tayledras@mastodon.online
       2022-10-10T22:37:57Z
       
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       @enigmatico TRS-DOS was pretty fault tolerant.  Most crashes would return you with a Z80 ASM error and punt you back to the TRS-DOS prompt on a TRS-80 Model III or IV.
       
 (DIR) Post #AORJ4W75r8NPIQ7J7Q by enigmatico@fedi.absturztau.be
       2022-10-10T23:23:55.355265Z
       
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       @tayledras Yeah I guess 8-bit computers were more reliable. At least in terms of software faults. Hardware-wise it's another story but I'm sure they are easy to repair since most of the components they use are standard electronics components instead of proprietary complex ICs like nowadays.