进入图形化的windows系统后,起初windows3.1还是在dos系统下运行的一个程序而已,崩溃后就会返回dos,而微软逐渐进化将windws做成了整个系统,逐渐从windows98一直到2000,这时候蓝屏死机也逐渐进驻系统,有人猜测微软最早给IBM设计PC系统,为配合IBM的企业VI识别是蓝色而将系统崩溃界面做成蓝色,我觉得这个理由靠不住,因为很多其他程序并不是为IBM设计的也用了蓝色。
更多有关蓝屏死机的知识在维基百科中有介绍,蓝屏死机已经是个固定用法,叫做Blue Screen of Death,简称为BSOD。
知友@Cascade还在国外网站上搜到了为Windows NT编写内核的人。
John Vert介绍了选择蓝屏的理由,看来他还不是最初的编写蓝屏的人,仅仅只是沿用了其他人的配色选择而已。不过这些已经足够回答Windows下死机时蓝屏的选择原因了。
问题:
Who designed the original Windows Blue Screen of Death?
谁最初设计了Windows的蓝屏死机?
Who chose the blue? Who wrote the language and typeset it?
谁选择了蓝色?谁又编写了这些语言和排版呢?
John Vert, ex-Windows NT kernel guy
回答者:约翰·韦尔,以前编写Windows NT内核的人
Back in 1991 I wrote the original code for Windows NT 3.1 that put the video screen back into text mode and the routines to put text on it (and a truly gnarly bit of code it was!).
早在1991年,我编写了Windows NT 3.1中将视频画面切换回文本模式的源代码,按照惯例在上面放上文字。(这些代码真的有点粗糙!) 。
I used the white on blue colors for two reasons.
我使用蓝底白字有两个原因。
The MIPS workstations we were using for the MIPS port had firmware that presented a boot option screen in white on blue,
我们当时用于测试MIPS端口的的MIPS工作站中,会出现一个固件引导界面,他是蓝底白字的,(MIPS---Million Instructions Per Second-每秒百万指令,衡量计算机性能的指标之一。)so it made sense that the bugcheck screen would match.因此错误检测界面为了匹配就很合理的(沿用了那个颜色)I (and many others) were using SlickEdit as our text editor and at the time its default color scheme was also white on blue.那时候我(和很多人)用的代码编辑器 SlickEdit像我们的文本编辑器一样,默认的配色方案也是蓝底白字
I believe Mark Lucovsky wrote the original code that dumped a bunch of text to the screen.
我认为是马克·卢科夫斯基编写了那些从屏幕上一堆堆冒出字来(的程序)的源代码
This was a bugcode and a stack dump,
那些字就是一些错误代码和一些内存镜像堆栈
resulting in a bunch of useless hex numbers which product support would occasionally dutifully transcribe from the customers and include in the bug report.
会输出一堆无用的十六进制数字,产品售后偶尔会尽职的从客户那里收集并转存进故障报告中。
There was no "typesetting" as we used standard VGA text mode on PCs.
那时候我们使用的PC电脑在标准VGA文本模式下是没有“排版”功能的。
I don't know the history of the Win3.1/Win9x blue screens, I think the fact they were the same color is just coincidence.
我不清楚Win3.1/Win9x的蓝屏的历史,我认为他们都使用了同样的颜色仅仅是一种巧合而已。