Tuesday, 7 July 2009

NTVDM has encountered an illegal instruction

This comes up when you do something weird in a DOS window, and appears in a plain messagebox with title "16 bit MS-DOS Subsytem". Perhaps you are running a command that requires bash to be initialised? VDMs are run as applications rather than server processes. Subsystems are server processes, like Windows environment subsystem (csrss.exe -> Client/Server Runtime Subsystem).

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