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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