Not talking about hardware driver crashes or blue screens but crashes where everything just freezes. Say a badly programmed app written in low level assembly language went into an infinite loop, shouldn't that cause everything to lock up and require a reboot?
I know we now have memory protection layers to stop processes writing to memory outside it's range but how come we don't get the good old fashioned freeze up? In the old days of the Archimedes, Amiga, C64 and Spectrum these machines used to crash all the time, are things just better programmed today? Or is the kernel OS sacred and interprets the code of everything outside so it doesn't crash?
Is it even possible to write some assembler code to freeze up the machine or can you always Ctrl-Alt-Del out of it?
I know we now have memory protection layers to stop processes writing to memory outside it's range but how come we don't get the good old fashioned freeze up? In the old days of the Archimedes, Amiga, C64 and Spectrum these machines used to crash all the time, are things just better programmed today? Or is the kernel OS sacred and interprets the code of everything outside so it doesn't crash?
Is it even possible to write some assembler code to freeze up the machine or can you always Ctrl-Alt-Del out of it?