Ever since Windows 3.0 became popular in 1990 or so, I've been fighting with the dreaded General Protection Fault (GPF). For those of you less technically oriented, the simplest definition is "a program did something wrong, now I give up". It's also been called Windows' "General Default Error", since generally there is absolutely no useful information displayed to say what really went wrong.
Here is a screenshot of the GPF as shown on Windows 3.1 (from here):
And here is Gwen's default messagebox:
And now it's time to play "decode the error"! Try to guess what Gwen's upset about here:
Yeah, we didn't know either.
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