19. Mac: reboots. Mac gurus suggest "zapping your PRAM." Violence ensues. [peterb]
18. make: no tab? it's not a bug, you just suck [psu]
17. gcc: Reports that there is some sort of error somewhere in your source code, but it's not quite sure what or where. [peterb]
16. ed: Beeps. [peterb]
15. emacs: invalid string value: nil [psu]
14. csh: "Not a typewriter" [peterb]
13. Netscape: leaks memory till you run out of VM. Then you die. [jch]
12. C++: vector
11. Applesoft basic: ?SYNTAX ERROR
10. windows: an error occured
9. CMU SCS: Your thesis is not yet complete. Continue? [kosak]
8. IE: leaks memory until you run out of VM, then it lets a virus send
mail to all your friends about it [psu]
7. AFS: loses contact with some server you never heard of, locks up your
machine [jch]
6. DOS: A)bort, R)etry, F)ail? [peterb]
5. NFS: loses contact with some server you never heard of, locks up your
machine
[psu]
4. afs: loses contact with some server you enver heard of, locks up
your machine, but there are still geeks from CMU and Transarc telling
you that this is somehow better than if NFS was locking up
your machine. [peterb]
3. Word: crashes with your backup file open while writing the
original. Both get corrupted. [jch]
2.
1. Zephyr: being on zephyr is itself a failure mode. [jch]