At least Windows in the 90s had the decency to put up a blue screen This sounds like back then there were only crashes with a blue screen (and dump), and curre

At least Windows in the 90s had the decency to put up a blue screen This sounds like back then there were only crashes with a blue screen (and dump), and currently there's only hard crashes without blue screen. Both of them are not true. I.e. there are apparently types crashes for which it hasn't been possible in the past decades to come up with a bluescreen, othiing new there. It is just as likely, maybe even moe so, the difference in your particular case is your hardware/driver. It's of course possible there were effectively changes at the OS level in how hard faults are dealt with, but I wouldn't just assume so.