[HN Gopher] The 'blem wit' error messages: Things get terse (2008)
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The 'blem wit' error messages: Things get terse (2008)
Author : susam
Score : 56 points
Date : 2024-04-20 08:58 UTC (2 days ago)
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| cpeterso wrote:
| > There was a bug in some versions of the Novell redirector shell
| (NET5.COM) that was a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program
| that ran under DOS. ... the very problem that triggered the error
| message had the unfortunate side effect of screwing up the
| ability of DOS to write to the screen. So only a part of the
| error message was actually written to the screen. What was that
| error message? "There is a problem with the
| Memory Control Block for the shell" ^^^^^^^^
| blem wit
| tetha wrote:
| This reminds me of a fun bug from back in the day in university,
| implementing an experimental stream-based language. The out-of-
| memory errors were very disconnected, because they occured in the
| VM - comparing it to the JVM, but without a real connection to
| the user code in the VM.
|
| So they trapped the memory errors and put out the current upper-
| code level state of the VM to make it somewhat more debuggeable
| if the VM ran out of memory. Wonderful new feature to users, as
| now you had a clue where your code messed up and the VM failed.
| Very happy users.
|
| Except, eventually someone accidentally added a memory allocation
| to the error reporting about memory exhaustion. Suddenly things
| just stopped doing useful stuff, hogged a core and didn't do
| anything else. Great fun.
| kps wrote:
| values of b will give rise to dom!
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| > _?_ --KLT
| genpfault wrote:
| https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/odd.html
| Sniffnoy wrote:
| Hm, the text file link in there is broken (both because the
| link itself is incorrectly formatted and because the file it
| was supposed to is gone anyway), but the Wayback Machine has
| it at https://web.archive.org/web/20160323001023/https://tmk.
| com/f...
| AstroJetson wrote:
| From early Sperry days "BTFOOM" it was the last effort in the OS
| error system, printing this then halt. Beats The Fxxk Out Of Me,
| was the official wording.
| niccl wrote:
| After getting really frustrated with the syntax of the command
| line of a telephone exchange, entering, in frustration, 'sod off'
| got the response 'SOD is not on'.
| Doctor_Fegg wrote:
| "Silly"
|
| https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic/manual/annexc.html#silly
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