On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:10:46PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > > What is a core dump??? and why do you get them???
> > >
> > Core dump is a memory dump of a crashed program. Instead of a "blue
> > screen of death" like you get with Microsoft, you get a "core dump"
>
> Now come on now... A core dump is like a Dr. Watson trace. It just saves
> the memory image to disk so you can beat someone for it later.
>
Well, it's not much use to most people. You really almost have to be
a programmer to figure out what happened from a core dump. :-)
>
> Now, an OOPS... THAT's like a Blue Screen of Death.
>
Hmm...never had an OOPS, AFAIK. :-)
>
> > when a program fails. Also, the nice thing about Linux is that the
> > PROGRAM fails, not the Operating System. :-)
>
> Indeed!
>
Most definitely a nice feature! :-)
John
