http://blogs.msdn.com/b/matt_pietrek/archive/2005/08/10/450005.aspxRaymond's post on the history of Dr. Watson is right on the money. Some additional info, since I have some somewhat close personal connection. When Dr. Watson first became available, I loved what it did. I was working at Borland at the time, and haden-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/matt_pietrek/archive/2005/08/10/450005.aspx#9660583Sat, 30 May 2009 02:23:37 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9660583 Under The Hood Matt Pietrek Follow on to Raymond s post on Dr Watson | Paid Surveys<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://paidsurveyshub.info/story.php?title=under-the-hood-matt-pietrek-follow-on-to-raymond-s-post-on-dr-watson">http://paidsurveyshub.info/story.php?title=under-the-hood-matt-pietrek-follow-on-to-raymond-s-post-on-dr-watson</a></p> <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9660583" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/matt_pietrek/archive/2005/08/10/450005.aspx#450548Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:55:48 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:450548R Samuel KlatchkoI am primarily a Unix developer and would like to understand how core files compare to Dr Watson/Dr Frank dumps. Effectively a core file is a snapshot of the address space when the program crashes. Debuggers can load up the core and you can examine anything in the address space (stack, heap, whatever). <br> <br>Are Dr Watson/Dr Frank dumps the same thing or are they preselected pieces of data from the crash?<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=450548" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/matt_pietrek/archive/2005/08/10/450005.aspx#450057Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:19:22 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:450057DanDr. Watson in Windows 2000 had a serious bug. If an administrator hadn't run the application, the next time a regular user was logged on and an AV occurred, Dr. Watson wouldn't work. The most that would happen is a log would be created in the root of the system drive. No user mode dump was created. <br> <br>Dr. Watson would attempt to read configuration data from the HKLM\Software\Microsoft registry key. It would request KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY access which would fail. It would do this because if the data wasn't there, it would attempt to write it. After the failure, Dr. Watson would continue to run but without any configuration data. It was later fixed to use a set of default values if none existed or the key couldn't be written to. The fix first went into Service Pack 1.<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=450057" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/matt_pietrek/archive/2005/08/10/450005.aspx#450045Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:00:01 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:450045Matt PietrekYep, it did ship with Turbo Pascal, as I recall<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=450045" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/matt_pietrek/archive/2005/08/10/450005.aspx#450028Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:13:18 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:450028Rolando RamirezWas WinSpector also shipped with TurboPascal for Windows ??? The icons in the screenshot at blong.com seem familiar...<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=450028" width="1" height="1">