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One thing that's I feel like is missing from this site: the blue screen of death. I've heard second-hand that these were mostly caused by third-party drivers f

by cbhl 3y ago

One thing that's I feel like is missing from this site: the blue screen of death. I've heard second-hand that these were mostly caused by third-party drivers for devices, and truly fixing it required rewriting the drivers in-house and deprecating the old driver model.

jsiepkes 3y ago
> I've heard second-hand that these were mostly caused by third-party drivers for devices, and truly fixing it required rewriting the drivers in-house and deprecating the old driver model. Windows 95 had some memory protection but it was rather basic compared to for example NT and UNIX'es. So it was pretty easy for a faulty piece of software to cause a kernel panic.