The Mystery of Windows Blue Screen Origin and Its Authors
TapTechNews August 2nd news, the update of CrowdStrike led to the blue screen of death on 8.5 million Windows devices globally, and also made more people explore the secret origin of the Windows system's blue screen..
The senior developer Raymond Chen published a blog post in the 'The Old New Thing' column on the Microsoft DevBlogs website, uncovering the mysterious veil of the origin of the Windows blue screen of death (BSOD).
Who originally wrote the blue screen interface? There are three answers: Steve Ballmer, John Vert, and Raymond Chen.
Let's state the conclusion first. The three of them developed 3 versions. The earliest was that Ballmer wrote the text part of the blue screen for the Windows 3.1 system. TapTechNews attaches the information of the Windows blue screen author as follows:
System authorRelease yearWindows 3.1Steve Ballmer (text part)1992Windows 95Raymond Chen1995Windows NTJohn Vert1993Windows 3.1
On Windows 3.1, users would enter the blue screen interface by using the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination. Chen quipped that it was the 'unhappy blue screen'. When the user presses the CTRL+ATL+DEL key, the blue screen will be triggered. When the user is not satisfied with the performance of the computer, it can help pause the Windows session.
The system failure of Windows 3.1 is not a blue screen but a black screen, and there will be an untimely black screen of death, and the text description in it was written by Ballmer (Ballmer didn't write the code, just the text in the information).
Windows NT
The blue screen of death of the Windows NT system was written by John Vert.
Windows 95 system
Raymond Chen said that the early version of the Windows 95 blue screen information was not from his hand, but he continuously improved and released the final version of the Windows 95 blue screen.
Chen wrote:
For some reason, some people said there was a 30-year mystery of Microsoft's blue screen.
The current focus of the debate is who wrote the blue screen interface? There are three answers: Steve Ballmer, John Vert, and me (Raymond Chen).
But in fact, this is not in conflict. There are three different blue screens, and each blue screen has a different author.