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BSOD Through the Ages

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A common sight to anyone who used Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows ME regularly. The BSOD would pop up whenever a floppy disk was removed too soon, or a keyboard was unplugged at the wrong time, or when RAM chips started to fail. BSODs would also show up frequently on machines that had entered "DLL Hell."
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When TiVos crash, they have their own Screen of Death. Notice the subtle color difference.

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Apple's answer to the BSOD is the Kernel Panic error that results when Mac OS X encounters a fatal software or hardware error. Kernel Panic errors are seen on all Unix-based operating systems.

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