Computers Crash, Stall and Hang

[beenee]

What's the difference?

[lisaj]

A crash is where a problem cannot be recovered from, for example a piece of software that tries to divide by zero and doesn't know how to deal with this problem. It's only possible action is to quit all together. A hang is where a piece of software becomes unresponsive. This could be where it enters an infinite loop in the code where no exception has occurred causing it to crash, but it will never get any further. The solution here is to kill the application, freeing up its resources. A stall is pretty much the same as a hang, and AFAIK isn't even a commonly used phrase.

[xyzzyplugh]

Not getting confused with flying a plane beenee?

[darth vader]

A computer crash is when two systems collide, a computer stall is where you go to buy one at a show, a computer hanging is a public ceremony for a computer killer