 A Mac OS bomb screen. The Bomb icon is a symbol designed by Susan Kare that was displayed when a "classic" Macintosh operating system (pre-Mac OS X) program had an application crash. It was similar to a dialog box in Windows 9x that said "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down". But, since the "classic" Mac OS offered no memory protection, a system crash would take down the entire system, unlike Mac OS X and Windows NT which only force-quit the offending program. Image File history File links Macosbomb. ...
Susan Kare, received her B.A., summa cum laude, in Art from Mount Holyoke College and Ph. ...
Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is a range of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers. ...
Mac OS X is the operating system which is included with all shipping Apple Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets. ...
A crash in computing is a condition where a program (either an application or part of the operating system) stops performing its expected function and also stops responding to other parts of the system. ...
Dialog boxes are special windows which are used by computer programs or by the operating system to display information to the user, or to get a response if needed. ...
Microsoft Windows is a range of commercial operating environments for personal computers. ...
Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is a range of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers. ...
Memory protection is a system that prevents one process from corrupting the memory of another process running on the same computer at the same time. ...
System Crash is an avant-garde rock group which combines heavy sound with philosophical and political lyrics and multimedia projection of videos and sounds of current world, real and virtual. ...
Mac OS X is the operating system which is included with all shipping Apple Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets. ...
Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, and was succeeded by Windows 2000 (still based on Windows NT). ...
The bomb symbol first appeared on the original Macintosh in 1984. Often, a reason for the crash including the error code was displayed in the dialog. If a person was lucky, a "Continue" button would be an option, which could be used to dismiss the dialog and force the offending program to quit, but most often the computer would have to be restarted.
In Mac OS X, the bomb symbol is no longer used since the system architecture is vastly different than it was in the classic Mac OS, and an application crash rarely brings down the entire system. In Mac OS X, a kernel panic replaces the bomb symbol but appears less often. Mac OS X is the operating system which is included with all shipping Apple Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets. ...
Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is a range of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers. ...
A kernel panic is a message displayed by an operating system upon detecting an internal system error from which it cannot recover. ...
TOS-based systems, such as the Atari ST, also used bombs as the indication for an error. When a system error occurred, a row of bombs, variable in number, would show up on the screen and then disappear. A complete system crash resulted in the screen filled with bombs, which could not be removed without a hard reboot. TOS may refer to: Computing Tape Operating System, predecessor to IBMs Disk Operating System. ...
The Atari 520ST Atari 1040STF with SC1224 color monitor The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was commercially popular from 1985 to the early 1990s. ...
This is a screenshot from an (emulated) Atari ST, the four bombs indicates that the system error Illegal Instruction has occurred. ...
Computing A hard reboot (also known as a cold reboot) is when power to a computer is cycled (turned on and off) or a special reset signal to the processor is triggered (from a front panel switch of some sort). ...
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