On 10/9/2011 16:12, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:39:39 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>
>> On 10/9/2011 14:00, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> The point was that Andy said that binary blob data could be stored in
>>> the registry and not a Linux configuration file.
>>
>> Oh. I thought that was more "you *could* do it that way, but it would be
>> a stupid way to do it" sort of comment. OK.
>
> Oh, no.  It was entirely about the fact that saying the registry is
> unique (or whatever) because you can store binary data in it was kinda
> silly.

I didn't catch that assertion. OK. It's fairly unique in being a standard 
searchable format with an API, but not in that it stores binary data.

> But the term "BSOD" originally meant "Black Screen of Death" and came
> with certain versions of Novell's VLM client (1.02, IIRC) with DOS and
> Windows 3.1.  To the best of my knowledge, that's where BSOD was first
> used.

Interesting.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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