6 Oct
2000
6 Oct
'00
11:06 a.m.
THETechnoid(a)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(a)timharrison.com
http://www.networklevel.com/