[wpkg-users] wpkg.js crashing?

Rainer Meier r.meier at wpkg.org
Mon Apr 21 23:28:26 CEST 2008


Hi Tomasz,

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Ah, you're just being ignorant.
> It's by design: it has an advantage that it perfectly fits on a single, 
> 720k floppy.

Missing some irony tags here?
Well XP was introduced in ~2001 I think. USB and memory sticks have 
already replaced 1.44MB floppies by then - at least I was already 
building floppy-less computers by then and wondering about the stupid 
setup routine reading "F6-drivers" hard-coded from the floppy hardware 
address. Well some BIOS support floppy emulation of UBS drivers but then 
it got even worse, after loading the setup routine it is unable to 
locate any USB storage and emulation does not help any more since the 
BIOS routines are not used any more... trapped...


> You can configure a Windows system to make a BSOD when the Event Log is 
> full. I doubt many (non-paranoid) people use it, though.

How?
I managed to fill it with WPKG quite quickly, now I want to see it BSOD 
;-). Probably this is a more-proper error handling than catching 
exceptions with WPKG? (well, not seriously)...

br,
Rainer



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