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May 19, 2010
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If you can detect the difference between an emulator and the real thing, then the emulator has failed

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Recall that a corrupted program sometimes results in a "Program too big to fit in memory" error. In response, Dog complained that while that may have been a reasonable response back in the 1980's, in today's world, there's plenty of memory around for the MS-DOS emulator to add that extra check and return a better error code. Well yeah, but if yo...

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