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I know a professor that claims to have written an ASM implementation of the BSOD. Not sure if it is something that was ever used but he did work as a dev at Microsoft in the 90's.

Archive: https://archive.today/NFjvP

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>A Microsoft developer blog post from Raymond Chen in 2014 said that former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote the text for the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog in Windows 3.1. That very benign post led to countless stories from tech media claiming Ballmer was the inventor of the "Blue Screen of Death." That, in turn, prompted a follow-up developer blog post from Chen titled "Steve Ballmer did not write the text for the blue screen of death...."

I know a professor that claims to have written an ASM implementation of the BSOD. Not sure if it is something that was ever used but he did work as a dev at Microsoft in the 90's. Archive: https://archive.today/NFjvP From the post: >>A Microsoft developer blog post from Raymond Chen in 2014 said that former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote the text for the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog in Windows 3.1. That very benign post led to countless stories from tech media claiming Ballmer was the inventor of the "Blue Screen of Death." That, in turn, prompted a follow-up developer blog post from Chen titled "Steve Ballmer did not write the text for the blue screen of death...."

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