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I've been reading these forums for a while now and see people talking about kernal panics, but i cant find an explanation of what one is. I tried searching and came up blank...any help?? Thanks
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The kernel panic was introduced in an early version of Unix, and demonstrated a major difference between the design philosophies of Unix and its predecessor Multics. Multics developer Tom van Vleck recalls a discussion of this change with Unix developer Dennis Ritchie:
"I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, 'We left all that stuff out. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.' "
What??? they actually introduced crashes voluntarily?? Those bastards
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