You might be a VMS Bigot if.....

From: Tim Harrison <harrison_at_timharrison.com>
Date: Fri Oct 6 18:06:13 2000

THETechnoid_at_home.com wrote:

> Not nearly as bad as a BSOD. That kills your box. OS/2 will just display
> the error and allow you to proceed. A minor trap like 3175 described
> below does not cause your system to turn to jello. Though if OS/2 gives
> you a BLACK Screen of Death (Trap 000D,000E...), it is really really dead
> -- "Please manually transcribe this 4k screen of Hex and text and call
> IBM".
>
> Like your gonna. ;-0

I was more referring to the system stopping traps. Those used to make
my heart stop, as they were very rare in my 5 years of OS/2 experience
(maybe I was a lucky one... I've heard others constantly having problems
-- although I usually found they were hardware problems).

I thought about calling an IBM tech support line one day, and just
reading random information to them, to see if they even knew what I was
talking about. :)
 
> OS/2 has allways had a neato replacement (diagnostic) kernel which allows
> terminals to access the system even if it is crashed. I have never used
> it.

I feel remarkably stupid. I don't think I've ever seen that...

-- 
Tim Harrison
Network Engineer
harrison_at_timharrison.com
http://www.networklevel.com/
Received on Fri Oct 06 2000 - 18:06:13 BST

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