[DouglasKC]

I could be remembering wrong but Windows 98 technically did not have the blue screen of death. That happened with NT and later builds based on that version.

[dayglored]

> I could be remembering wrong but Windows 98 technically did not have the blue screen of death. That happened with NT and later builds based on that version.

Technically you’re correct. The name was attached to the NT crash screen. Prior to that, a DOS-based Windows brought up a Blue Screen with the message about the crash, so after the BSOD became famous, the name was back-ported to the DOS-Windows screen, which is technically what Win98 threw up at COMDEX.

However, in the common parlance and understanding, the BSOD now is applied to both equally.

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