This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

[rikki cattermole]

On 02/09/2018 12:21 AM, tide wrote:
> On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 05:53:12 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> On 01/09/2018 12:40 PM, tide wrote:
>>> On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 22:42:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> On 8/31/2018 2:40 PM, tide wrote:
>>>>> I don't think I've ever had a **game** hung up in a black screen 
>>>>> and not be able to close it.
>>>>
>>>> I've had that problem with every **DVD player** I've had in the last 
>>>> 20 years. Power cycling is the only fix.
>>>
>>> Two very different things, odds are your DVD players code aren't even 
>>> written with a complete C compiler or libraries.
>>
>> And yet they manage to run a JVM with Java on it.
> 
> Not the one's Walter is talking about. I rarely have to power cycle any 
> smart device, even my phone which is running so much shit on it.

For some reason I have memories related to DVD players containing a JVM 
to provide interactivity. But it doesn't look like those memory were 
based on anything. So ignore me.