Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!silver!sl161022
From: sl161022@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Interesting Mac Crash
Message-ID: <3600037@silver>
Date: 11 Feb 89 21:07:00 GMT
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This sentence is in Turkish when no one is looking at it.
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The Mac ROM routine SysError, which is executed when a system error is
detected, takes an integer from 0 to 65535 as the number to draw in the
lower right corner of the bomb box.

SysError knows nothing about what caused the error.  It just blindly
takes the integer passed to it and draws the infamous system error
dialog box with that integer.

There are not 65536 possible system errors (thank God).  Most of the
integers are not defined, as is the case with 29 (I believe).  The
nature of the problem you described indicates to me that something
REALLY screwy happened to the running program.  So screwy that I wouldn't
attach any meaning to those messages, especially if it was cycling
through them regularly.
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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."

Sincerely,                                        -- George Carlin
           Phaedrus
           (aka Colin Klipsch)
           sl161022@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
           Indiana University at Bloomington