Ballmer wrote the BSOD text
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Force quit dialog != BSOD.
Fail.The original post is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/09/02/10554253.aspx
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+1 for linking to a site that has a link to tdwtf in it.
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Raymond Chen is a long time fan of TDWTF. IIRC, he had some hand in getting it set up. I think it was a link from him that brought me here originally.
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Wow. Not only did they not link the source, they got the story utterly wrong.
Oh wait. It's The Register. They wouldn't want to break their perfect record of being utterly wrong.
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Raymond's blog is how I ended up here. I read several MSDN blogs in college, especially The Old New Thing, until they screwed the portal up and made things impossible to find anything unless you're into mediocre foreign-language posts by bloggers nobody cares about.
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Wow. Not only did they not link the source, they got the story utterly wrong.
Oh wait. It's The Register. They wouldn't want to break their perfect record of being utterly wrong.
Why you do think I didn't comment on the article beyond paraphrasing the title and linking it?
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I got here from Jeff Atwood's blog
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No, it involves asking nicely since old Windows didn't know what 'pre-emptive' meant.
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Really old Windows hardly even grasped what multitasking meant. Pre-3 Windows really was shitty. (Fortunately for me, I never tried Win v1; from what I've heard about it, I would've hated it intensely.)
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The headline is definitely false, it was posted on /.
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Surprised it was him alone, and no copy people. http://thenet.today/2014/09/04/steve-ballmer-wrote-the-bsod-text/
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Really old Windows hardly even grasped what multitasking meant.
Would you say it was done coöperatively?
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Fortunately for me, I never tried Win v1; from what I've heard about it, I would've hated it intensely.
http://www.pcjs.org/configs/pc/machines/5160/cga/256kb/win101/
Enjoy!
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Would you say it was done coöperatively?
That's what they graduated to with 3. Early versions were more like uncoöperatively.