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by greatgib 698 days ago
A key moment about Windows for me is when I did read the windows official driver development guide and discovered that the real name of "bsod" is in fact "BUGCHECK".

Then you understand that it is not the core that crashed, but if there is any error, in any driver, the mandated behavior is to trigger a "BUGCHECK" in the same way that you would just do a printf(error) usually...