Who Wrote the Blue Screens of Death
The Blue Screen of Death has three versions with different authors: Steve Ballmer for Windows 3.1, Raymond Chen for Windows 95, and John Vert for Windows NT, clarifying previous misconceptions.
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The article clarifies the authorship of the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Microsoft Windows, dispelling claims of a 30-year mystery. It identifies three distinct blue screens, each with a different author. The first is the Windows 3.1 Ctrl+Alt+Del screen, which was written by Steve Ballmer, although it is not a true BSOD. The second is the Windows 95 kernel error message, which was finalized by Raymond Chen, though he did not create the initial version. Lastly, the true BSOD, associated with Windows NT, was authored by John Vert. The article emphasizes that the confusion arises from misidentifying these different screens and their respective authors, rather than a singular mystery surrounding the BSOD's creation.
- The Blue Screen of Death has three different versions, each with distinct authors.
- Steve Ballmer wrote the text for the Windows 3.1 Ctrl+Alt+Del screen.
- Raymond Chen finalized the Windows 95 kernel error message.
- John Vert is credited with the true Blue Screen of Death for Windows NT.
- Misunderstandings about the BSOD's authorship stem from conflating different screens and their contexts.
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There is no mystery over who wrote the Blue Screen of Death
The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has three distinct versions: Windows 3.1 by Steve Ballmer, Windows 95 finalized by Raymond Chen, and the true BSOD from Windows NT by John Vert.
12 commentsFirst snow, then silence. This thousand-dollar screen dies So beautifully
Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.
While there were three different blue screens of death, all modern ones derive from John Vert's for Windows NT. And the shade Vert chose was the default screen background color from the MIPS RISC machine he built on.
So who wrote the latest iterations?
Are those values even useful given that the machine is halted and there's no way to inspect or read any additional information about what was running and where it was in memory?
I suspect there are a select few that can do this, but for the rest of us it's a reboot and reload situation. Also, those that could use this information probably also could fix and resolve the crash without it?
So, what's the point of even dumping that info to screen, instead of putting up a simple "oops, I died, time to restart" message?
Can't wait to see AI avatars crying in front of you for failing to summarize an article.
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