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raddevus wrote: reason: 'oom', code: '-536870904'
The code translates to 0xFFFFFFFFE0000008. The value 0x0008 is the Windows error code ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY, so the 'oom' reason that someone else posted makes sense.
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For me my favorite IDE is a toss-up between VS and IntelliJ (for Java).
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I agree...Visual Studio is a great IDE. And I really like IntelliJ via Android Studio.
VSC is very nice light-weight & I run Linux as my main desktop.
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Not only that they couldn't be bothered to type "Out of memory", but they couldn't even be bothered to capitalise the abbreviation.
I guess that just about sums up the way the world seems to be heading these days. People fighting for a 4 day working week because they feel "overworked", and this is an example of the daily struggles they face: having to hold the shift key at the same time as pressing other letters! 
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There was not enough memory for “Out of Memory”, but “oom\0” can fit in a 32bit const in program memory and used as a string.
Reminds me of the good old days of Win2.1/Win3 when your fatal crash error messages had to be hard codes in your data segment to guarantee the message box would work. It happened a LOT in Win2.1 as there was no memory protection between processes.
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englebart wrote: It happened a LOT in Win2.1
Did you really mean 2.1? I started out using Windows 3.0 then to 3.1 & then windows for workgroups (3.11 I believe).
But, wow! 2.1? That's kind of amazing. Most people weren't brave enough to use windows before 3.x.
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Yup. Win 3.0 is what made the Win system highly productive for Developers IMO.
I think the debugging features added to 3.0 is what pushed it past Apple Macintosh at the time. Mac had a better platform for a while, but it was harder to develop for.
Debugging in 2.1 was line based; debugging like old line based editors. Yuck! I came into Windows just in time to use it only a few times. Win 3.0 with its better memory protection and second monitor debugging was where you wanted to debug, especially for debugging drawing code. We used beta 3.0 for a year to fix dozens of bugs that helped stabilize our Win 2.1 product.
CodeView cvw.exe cview.exe was the debugger if I remember correctly.
Win386 2.1 was a pretty solid preemptive platform for running multiple DOS programs.
The funny thing is, it would not surprise me if a Win 2.1 program would run on Win 10 today. MS has produced some amazing, backward compatibility bridges through the years.
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Great story about your work on those systems. Thanks for sharing.
englebart wrote: MS has produced some amazing, backward compatibility bridges through the years.
I agree. I still have code from the old Petzold Programming Windows 3.1 & I've run it on modern Windows versions up to 8.1 at least. It's amazing that old code still runs.
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Those whippersnappers wouldn’t know a message loop if it bit them on their behind. 😊
Of course, web apps don’t need message loops. Just the browser.
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It really is interesting that modern Windows devs even know very little about the Message loop.
Actually, I trained some people via C# and I'm sure those devs would not really even know what I was talking about if I told them about the Message loop.
It's all hidden now for so long. It's interesting how that has changed. It's really for the better of course because it took a lot of boilerplate code to just get a simple app.
But it is good to know what is going on under the layers. 
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We had one system that had a single message loop built into a framework such that multiple top level windows only shared one thread. One of our team members decided to kill the framework message loop and provide a separate thread for each top level window to have its own message loop/ dispatch. Worked like a champ.
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Windows 2.1 was also being distributed with Word for Windows and Excel. So it was getting a fair bit of distribution.
The company I worked for at the time was developing EGA and VGA display chips, so we had to develop custom drivers for Win 2.1 and beyond. I wasn't involved in that, instead was creating emulation code in x86 for MDA, CGA and Hercules modes on these chips. But I was using Word and Excel for my development documentation.
I can remember that our company was working with MS at the time to develop the Win drivers, so that we got a pre-alpha release of Win 3.0 to work with. I have to say, we were all pretty impressed with what we saw then....
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That's an amazing story. Thanks for sharing. Very cool.
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Prolly was supposed to say Boom. But, typo.
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Commercial Scotsman is hospital carpet? (8)
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Nice one
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'll take it
Admonish
Commercial = Ad
Scotsman = mon ( as in hoots mon there's a moose loose in the hoose  )
is hospital = ish
Carpet is slang for being told off / admonished
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And you are up tomorrow!
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Is is hospital = ish east side of the pond colloquialism or CCC idiom I don't know.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Commercial AD
Scotsman MON
is IS
hospital H
carpet? (8)
ADMONISH
The conventional sign for a hospital on either side of the pond (and most of the rest of the world) is a "H" - for a road sign it's often a White "H" on a Blue background, on a map it's a Blue "H", and so on.
It's a pretty standard CCC convention as well.
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That I can understand.
Thanks Griff.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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You're welcome!
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 I wonder of those salt drenched models will make it to market eventually and if they will be "fixing" the burnt ones for market again...
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