Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:16:10 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: coolzone@it.dk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! Message-ID: <465f9d8a.W5x7vfZFzMgA48g/%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20070531185521.417ec0e2.coolzone@it.dk> References: <4e3998c7e72.465ed931@broadpark.no> <18014.49617.224340.697794@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <465EC558.9070102@netfence.it> <20070531135651.GA988@home> <20070531185521.417ec0e2.coolzone@it.dk>
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> > Favourite worst written error message in history: > > > > Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue. > > I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!? Someone at IBM. That's what the original IBM PC, PC-AT, and (presumably) PC-XT displayed if the keyboard was dead or not plugged in. It was probably a case of modular code: any problem in POST would display a message and return a "fail" status, and the generic code would append "Press F1 to continue." and wait. Not a bad idea at all -- certainly better than blindly trying to boot the machine without giving the operator a chance to decide what to do about the problem -- but this particular combination does have a chicken- egg aspect :(
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