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== Overview ==
[[File:bsod_xp.png|200px|thumb|Windows XP]]
[[File:bsod_mac.jpg|200px|thumb|MacOSXMac OS X]]
[[File:bsod_bsd.jpg|200px|thumb|FreeBSD]]
[[File:bsod_linux.jpg|200px|thumb|Linux]]
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Because a crash screen by its nature is a sad to see, developers started to put little things on screen to cheer the users up. One of the earliest examples is Amiga's "Guru Meditation", suggesting that the user will need a computer guru to solve the problem. Later they renamed it to "Grim Reaper". Undeniably funnier than a simple "System Crashed".
 
The reason why Microsoft picked the blue background is becausethat according to shrinks, blue makes people calm.
 
For OSes with the console metaphor, funny [[ASCII]] arts are also very popular, specially among hobby OS developers. This is not uncommon to mainstream either, although most just prints developer debug, some BSDs draw ASCII arts too.
 
== Implementation ==
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== See Also ==
 
* [[wikipedia:Crash (computing)|Wikipedia on Crash]]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation Wikipedia on Guru Meditation]
* [https://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_%28computing%29:Guru Meditation|Wikipedia on CrashGuru Meditation]]
 
[[Category:OS Development]]