The Old New Thing

The quiet dream of placebo settings

November 22, 2006 Nov 22, 2006 11/22/06

Raymond Chen

Back in the Windows 95 days, people swore that increasing the value of in the file fixed application errors. People usually made up some pseudo-scientific explanation for why this fixed crashes. These explanations were complete rot. These breakpoints had nothing to do with Windows applications. They were used by 32-bit device drivers ...