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From: "Mike Hatfield" <mhatfield@ridgeway-sys.com>
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Subject: Sega Dreamcrash
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:04:48 +0100
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From:
http://www.pa.press.net/news/technology/TECHNOLOGY_Segabug_78004.html

SEGA BROWSER BUG

The web browser built into Sega's new Dreamcast games console has a problem
coping with some e-mail messages, it has been shown.

Just days after the Dreamcast was launched in America, prompting huge sales,
a computer expert discovered a problem with its built-in Internet software.

If the browser tries to open mail messages with very long subject lines, it
crashes, telling users: "An internal error has occurred. Please contact
Sega."


Raises some interesting issues though:
(i) Have Sega built-in an "update over the Internet" capability for their
firmware?
(ii) Will Sony do the same for PSX2 (if/when the modem is released)?

Mike