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Mac OS system error alert from the System 7 era. These were a common sight, and Mac users of the era often kept a paper clip nearby in order to restart the computer since the onscreen restart button would usually be nonfunctional.
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The bombicon has several different applications in computing, and typically indicates a fatal system error.
In computing[edit]
Mac OS[edit]
The Bomb icon is a symbol designed by Susan Kare that was displayed inside the System Error alert box when the 'classic' Macintosh operating system had a crash which the system decided was unrecoverable. Since the classic Mac OS offered little memory protection, an application crash would often take down the entire system.
The bomb symbol first appeared on the original Macintosh in 1984. Often, a reason for the crash, including the error code, was displayed in the dialog. In some cases, a 'Resume' button would be available, allowing the user to dismiss the dialog and force the offending program to quit, but most often the resume button would be disabled and the computer would have to be restarted. Originally, the resume button was unavailable unless the running program had provided the OS with code to allow recovery. With the advent of System 7, if the OS thought it could handle recovery,[clarification needed] a normal error dialog box was displayed, and the application was forced to quit. This was helped by the classic Mac OS providing a little bit of protection against heap corruption using guard pages; if the application was to crash and the application's heap was corrupt, it could be thrown away.
The debugger program MacsBug was sometimes used even by end users to provide basic (though not always reliable) error recovery, and could be used for troubleshooting purposes, much as the output of a Unixkernel panic or a Windows NTBlue Screen of Death could be. Mac OS Classic bomb boxes were often ridiculed for providing little or no useful information about the error; this was a conscious decision by the Macintosh team to eliminate any information that the end user could not make sense of. The error code was intended to be included in a bug report to the developer.
In Mac OS X, the system architecture is vastly different from that in the classic Mac OS, and an application crash can not usually bring down the entire system. A kernel panic screen (either text overwritten on the screen in older versions, or simplified to a reboot message in more recent versions) replaces the bomb symbol but appears less often due to the radically different system architecture. The bomb symbol is not used in Mac OS X, but a test application called Bomb.app, specifically written to cause a non-fatal crash, is included with Xcode and uses a rendition of the bomb symbol as its icon.
In the original Mac OS, the operating system call to display a 'bomb box' was named DSError, and the corresponding alert table information was stored in resources of type 'DSAT'. 'DS', as in the 'DS Manager.' For documentation purposes, this was renamed the 'System Error Manager.'[1]
Atari ST TOS[edit]
On the Atari ST, the four bombs indicate that the system error 'Illegal Instruction' has occurred.
TOS-based systems, such as the Atari ST, used a row of bombs to indicate a critical system error. The number of bombs displayed revealed information about the occurred error. The error (also called an exception) is reported by the Motorola 68000microprocessor. The first version of TOS used mushroom clouds;[2] this was quickly changed, as it was considered politically incorrect.
- 1 bomb: Reset, Initial PC2
- 2 bombs: Bus Error
- 3 bombs: Address Error
- 4 bombs: Illegal Instruction
- 5 bombs: Division by zero
- 6 bombs: CHK Instruction
- 7 bombs: TRAPV Instruction
- 8 bombs: Privilege Violation
- 9 bombs: Trace
- 10 bombs: Line 1010 Emulator
- 11 bombs: Line 1111 Emulator
- 12–13 bombs: Reserved
- 14 bombs: Format Error
- 15 bombs: Uninitialized Interrupt Vector
- 16–23 bombs: Reserved
- 24 bombs: Spurious Interrupt
- 25 bombs: Level 1 Interrupt Autovector
- 26 bombs: Level 2 Interrupt Autovector
- 27 bombs: Level 3 Interrupt Autovector
- 28 bombs: Level 4 Interrupt Autovector
- 29 bombs: Level 5 Interrupt Autovector
- 30 bombs: Level 6 Interrupt Autovector
- 31 bombs: Level 7 Interrupt Autovector
- 32–47 bombs: Trap Instruction Vectors
- 48–63 bombs: Reserved
- 64–255 bombs: User Interrupt Vectors[3]
References[edit]
- ^'Busy Being Born, Part 2'. Retrieved 2008-02-05.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^'The New TOS ROM Error Codes'. www.atarimagazines.com.
- ^([email protected]), Robert Krynak. 'Help-Line (Q & A): Re: TOS ERROR 39?'. www.atariarchives.org. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
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This article is about the Linux mascot. For other uses of the term Tux, please see Tux (disambiguation).
© Image: Larry Ewing
Tux, the official Linux penguin. This image depicts him as most commonly appears and as originally drawn by Larry Ewing. Also see 'A pictorial history of Tux'.
Tux, the official Linux penguin. This image depicts him as most commonly appears and as originally drawn by Larry Ewing. Also see 'A pictorial history of Tux'.
Tux is the official cartoon penguin for the Linux computer operating system. First drawn in 1996 by Larry Ewing, the fun-loving character has a special place in many people's imaginations, both inside and outside of the global Linux community.
© Image: Larry Ewing
An early sketch of Tux, depicting how Linux's early developers felt their operating system was gearing for competition with other operating systems.
An early sketch of Tux, depicting how Linux's early developers felt their operating system was gearing for competition with other operating systems.
Quest for a Linux logo
Tux originated from a discussion on the 'Linux kernel' mailing list. On May 1, 1996, early Linux contributor Matt Hartley began a thread entitled 'Linux logo', which included an image by David Christiansen showing the planet Earth as seen from outer space, along with the captions 'LINUX' and 'Take your computer to another dimension.'[1][2] At one point, Linus Torvalds, the software engineer behind Linux, had casually mentioned his fondness of penguins, and list-users began to rally around the idea.
The next day, Alan Cox, a highly-esteemed hacker, posted a message suggesting that the Linux logo should be 'a picture of the BSD daemon'—the logo for another open source operating system—'flat out on the floor with stars around its head and a penguin in boxing gloves standing on top.'[3] Mark Lehrer countered that FreeBSD was not Linux's real competition. Microsoft's Windows 95 was—then the dominant operating system worldwide, in fact—so the logo should instead show a penguin smashing a window.[4] Alan Clucas then suggested that these two ideas would be best if combined, with a fighting penguin victorious over both its operating system competitors.[5]
Although parodies of other operating systems seemed by far the most popular, little real progress was being made. Besides, Torvalds could not bring himself to endorse the mocking of other operating systems. So he made a general plea for someone artistic to design a logo based on his favorite image of a penguin and release it under a free license,[6] emphatically stating that his penguin concept was final.
Tux takes shape and is named
Not long after, Dale Scheetz posted a prototype of a penguin holding up the Earth, combining Christiansen's original idea with Torvalds'.[7] Torvalds was doubtful, however, saying the penguin looked too weak to hoist an entire planet—the bird appeared in imminent danger of being squashed, in fact! The penguin logo, Torvalds thought, should instead be cute and cuddly. He envisioned the bird sitting, content and smiling, having just let out a small burp after a grand feast of herring. The bird was not to be fat, just happily gorged with fish.[8] It was Larry Ewing who then drew the original version of the Linux penguin—on a computer running Linux, of course.[9]
Once completed, the funny penguin needed a name. Humorously, one of the earliest suggestions, from Henning Schmiedehausen, was 'Homer', because to him the bird resembled television character Homer Simpson .[10] As a joke, Tux was later re-drawn by Anton Johansson as Homer Simpson morphed into a penguin.[11] Some then suggested 'Linnie' as the penguin's name, but it was 'Tux', coined by James Hughes, that soon caught on. This name has a two-fold meaning: as an acronym for Torvalds Unix, and as a pun based on the shortening of tuxedo, which penguins are often said to be wearing.[12][13]
Continued 'distributions' of Tux
Ever since Tux's beginning, he has been re-drawn and re-set in seemingly endless ways. Click on the image above to be brought to a gallery of some of his creative renditions.
Tux was therefore born of what Torvalds had often expressed as his affinity for 'flightless, fat waterfowl'. He once joked he had caught 'penguinitis' after being nipped by a ferocious one, saying his 'disease' caused him to 'stay awake at nights just thinking about penguins and feeling great love towards them'.[14] Some years later, Torvalds confessed he had not been looking for a 'Linux Corporate Image', but for something fun that could be extensively modified yet still be recognizable.
It is not surprising, then, that the Tux character has never been static. Like the Linux system itself, he changes with the input of creative contributors. From the beginning, people have felt free to 'play with' and re-draw the character in a variety of 'goofy' ways. Each has creatively cast Tux in a different light, including a skateboarder, a ninja, and a pipe-smoker. They have given Tux appearances in magazines, television broadcasts, video games and other software, mouse-pads, on clothing, stickers, and other paraphernalia. Sculptor Eric Harshbarger made a 25' Lego model of Tux,[15] and anyone can make his or her own plush toy (see image gallery at right) from free patterns which are available.[16]
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People have even gone so far as to get Tux permanently etched onto their bodies, as a tattoo.[17]
Most recently, some have suspected Tux to have competing romantic involvements. Gown and Penny, two female penguins, have appeared in several open source games. Tux's status remains unclear, however, since the gals are not official Linux projects.
References
- ↑Matt Hartley (1996-05-5). Linux logo.
- ↑David Christiansen. lin64.jpg.
- ↑Alan Cox (1996-05-2). Re: Linux logo (LKML).
- ↑Mark Lehrer (1996-05-4). Re: Linux logo.
- ↑Alan Clucas (1996-05-4). Re: Linux logo.
- ↑See ftp://ftp.cs.helsinki.fi/pub/Software/Linux/Kernel/v1.3/ccpenguin.jpg for the original image posted by Torvalds.
- ↑Dale Scheetz (1996-05-9). Linux Logo prototype..
- ↑Linus Torvalds (1996-05-9). Re: Linux Logo prototype..
- ↑A complete description of the methods Ewing used is on his website, http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/notes.html.
- ↑Henning Schmiedehausen (1996-06-10). Re: Let's name the penguin! (citation 1).
- ↑Steve Baker (Accessed April 18th, 2007). A Complete History of Tux.
- ↑James Hughes (1996-06-10). Re: Let's name the penguin! (citation 2).
- ↑LD Landis (1996-06-12). Re: Let's name the penguin! (citation 3).
- ↑Steve Baker (Accessed April 18th, 2007). A Complete History of Tux.
- ↑Eric Harshbarger. Linux Penguin - LEGO.
- ↑See http://www.free-penguin.org
- ↑Suzzy Olliver (Retrieved 2007-04-15). Tux (the Linux penguin) tattoos.
Other software mascots
- The BSD Daemon, the mascot of the various Berkeley Software Distribution releases
- Wilber, the mascot of The GIMP
- Hexley, the mascot of the Darwin open source operating system (which is the foundation of Mac OS X)
Subtopics
External links
- ccpenguin.jpg - Torvalds' original penguin image. At his recommendation, Tux is based on this image.
- [1] - A large number of Linux logo contest entrants.
- Tux image gallery - many interpretations of Tux.
Mac Os Versions
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