Some insights into the G1000
			 
			 
			
		
		
		
		
Neil Gould writes: 
 
 I don't think that's possible. There is no provision for the display 
 system to reboot the hardware; that just isn't done via software, or even 
 by physical switches located on the display unit(s). The display unit(s) 
 can't turn on or off the individual modules either, so a  software glitch 
 of any kind -- or even total failure of the display -- isn't able to be 
 the cause of a system-wide reboot. 
 
Virtually any bug can cause a reboot.  Anything that produces a 
hardware exception can cause a reboot if it is unexpected, 
particularly if the system is doing privileged work at the time.  A 
reboot is the typical response to any unhandled exception.  The 
alternative is to let the system run hither and yon uncontrolled 
through the code, which is even worse than a reboot in most cases. 
 
Of course, in safety-of-life applications, there must not be any 
unexpected exceptions; if there are, it's a flaw in the design. 
Unfortunately, people from PC-land tend to take the system down 
whenever there's a spot in the code that they don't want to design or 
analyze in detail. 
 
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