Re: Virus-IBMs crashing all around me...

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
: In article <5k6cuu$6d@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
: Michael Elliott <cv985@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
: > At least we don't put up with "General Protection Fault" on the GS.

:    Yeah, dialog boxes are for wimps. A simple beep and the keyboard
: no longer functioning (or better yet, locked mouse pointer) should be
: enough for anyone to figure out what went wrong.

Worse:  ">>BOINK!!<<" which is easy to miss in a noisy room, but the mouse
pointer *doesn't* freeze because the interrupt driven mouse pointer
routine is still working, and the display is still in SHR mode...but the
main program loop has crashed and if you could see the text screen, it
would be sitting in the System Monitor...

(I get this pretty much every time I try to run HyperCard IIgs on my 5Mb
ROM 01 machine...)

Who is General Protection and what is he doing in my computer?  These
problems are all his fault...

Or one of my favorite errors in Windows '95:  "Windows 95 Explorer:  This
program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
(for those of you who aren't familiar with Win'95, if such a message
existed on the GS, it would read, "GS/OS has performed an illegal
instruction and will be shut down"...)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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