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Date:      Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:41:54 -0600
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro
Message-ID:  <20110330194154.GA76616@guilt.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <20110330154523.GA33883@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
References:  <0148AA41-E800-477F-94BF-2D27E864053F@adelaide.edu.au> <20110329212348.GI2281@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20110329213936.GA84631@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20110330000007.99a555cf.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110329192319.319dc40f@scorpio> <20110330014820.84d5cf27.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110329235614.GJ2281@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20110330020917.ba2af8eb.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110330151026.GB75845@guilt.hydra> <20110330154523.GA33883@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011:
> >=20
> > We were speaking in analogies here, where the car *is* the operating
> > system -- so I think if it said "1/0" it would be more accurate to
> > say the "car" would crash.
>=20
> It's uncertain whether the car would crash, or run infinitely.

Mathematically, that seems to be the case, but implementations tend to
result in crashy behavior -- or, quite often, raise exceptions.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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