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I'd accuse windows of knowingly setting expectations by choosing a blue screen as the default, but they were using it before the BSOD was even a thing
by autoexec 2y ago
I'd accuse windows of knowingly setting expectations by choosing a blue screen as the default, but they were using it before the BSOD was even a thing
- jagged-chisel 2y agoDOS-based editors used a blue background often: WordPerfect, QuickC…
- sfllaw 2y agoDo you remember Microsoft Word’s “Jerry Pournelle mode”? He convinced them to ship a feature that forced Word to render white text on a blue background, just like his favourite word processor, so that he would switch. I think the last version with this feature was Word 2003.
- lproven 2y agoI used to use that occasionally! It was Pournelle that inspired it? Really?