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The Screen of Death in Windows 10, which includes a sad emoticon and a QR code for quick troubleshooting A Linux kernel panic, forced by an attempt to kill init The Mac OS X kernel panic alert. This screen was introduced in Mac OS X 10.2, while the kernel panic itself was around since the Mac OS X Public Beta.
WHEA "builds on the PCI Express Advanced Reporting to provide more detailed information about system errors and a common reporting structure." [ 4 ] WHEA allows third-party software to interact with the operating system and react to certain hardware events.
mced [15] (mcedaemon) is a Linux program by Tim Hockin to gather MCEs from the kernel and alert interested applications. Note that it does not try to interpret the MCE data, it simply alerts other programs. mcat is a Windows command-line program from AMD to decode MCEs from AMD K8, Family 0x10 and 0x11 processors.
The corresponding system routine in Windows 9x, named SHELL_SYSMODAL_Message, does not halt the system like bug checks do. Instead, it displays the infamous "blue screen of death" (BSoD) and allows the user to attempt to continue. The Windows DDK and the WinDbg documentation both have reference information about most bug checks. The WinDbg ...
In computing, a crash, or system crash, occurs when a computer program such as a software application or an operating system stops functioning properly and exits. On some operating systems or individual applications, a crash reporting service will report the crash and any details relating to it (or give the user the option to do so), usually to ...
BSoDs in the Windows NT family initially used the 80×50 text mode with a 720×400 screen resolution, but changed to use the 640×480 screen resolution starting with Windows 2000 up to 7. Windows 2000 used its built-in kernel mode font, Windows XP, Vista, and 7 use the Lucida Console font, and Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 used the Segoe UI ...
Joel Spolsky points out that users usually do not pay full attention to the computer system while using it. He suggests compensating for this when building usable systems, thus allowing a higher percentage of users to complete tasks without errors:
Arm MAP, a performance profiler supporting Linux platforms.; AppDynamics, an application performance management solution [buzzword] for C/C++ applications via SDK.; AQtime Pro, a performance profiler and memory allocation debugger that can be integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio, and Embarcadero RAD Studio, or can run as a stand-alone application.