Pink Screen of Death? (was: Re: Hallelujah!)

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed Apr 14 11:36:46 1999

> > But what kind of computer would a satellite software company have been
> > planning to run that program on before they ported it to the real world?
> Hal ??

I can imagine some nutty fanatical CS prof (like me) saying, "If you want
TRUE platform independence, then IGNORE all realities of the computer;
write your program for an imaginary computer that would be perfect for
your needs; then map the keyboard, etc. over to the layout that is present
on the real world computer."

Is that the way that it happened? Or was there some computer that
actually HAD those goofy keys? (There were eventually some aftermarket
add-on keyboards for the PC for WordPervert.)


Please do NOT interpret this as a defence for MSWeird!
Received on Wed Apr 14 1999 - 11:36:46 BST