OT: Easter Eggs

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Nov 22 11:32:55 PST 2006


On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:56:57AM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> As I recall, it was generated by the Z80 I/O control processor, which
> would check the stack pointer at the start/end of the main loop.  If
> the pointer changed (which "should never happen") it would display
> that message.

Yeah; that sounds right.  Kernel can't-happen's get the *best* messages:

"lp1 on fire".

Cheers,
-- jra
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