[HN Gopher] Why did Windows 95 use blue screen error messages in...
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       Why did Windows 95 use blue screen error messages instead of hard
       error messages
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2024-09-03 16:39 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | ... sounds like this is why Win 95 seemed to crash all the time.
        
         | plorkyeran wrote:
         | As time has gone on I have become increasingly impressed by the
         | fact that Windows 9x worked at all. There's so many of these
         | things that sound like they should individually cause the
         | system to be crashing constantly, and yet somehow they got it
         | to mostly work.
        
           | thelastparadise wrote:
           | > There's so many of these things that sound like they should
           | individually cause the system to be crashing constantly, and
           | yet somehow they got it to mostly work.
           | 
           | You just described all of humanity.
        
       | jmkni wrote:
       | I knew before I clicked this that it would be a Raymond Chen
       | article
        
       | bubblesnort wrote:
       | If you enter C:\PROGRA~1 during setup, you end up with Program
       | Files being the only folder in the C: drive.
        
         | alliao wrote:
         | where were you in 1994
        
       | alliao wrote:
       | what I'd really like is some comparison between all OSs in
       | handling these and maybe we'd have new OS some day? I remember
       | the scintillating days of OS/2 Warp/BeOS/linux distros and
       | everything called itself windows killer. I feel like an old man
       | shouting at cloud but I swear Windows used to be slow and then
       | got pretty snappy around windows2000 and nowadays I feel like
       | it's back to win98 days in terms of latency/response
        
         | theandrewbailey wrote:
         | Depends on the hardware used to run it. Windows 98 on a Pentium
         | 2 or 3 with 64+ MB RAM is quite snappy.
        
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