When a stopgap solution becomes an undocumented feature some people rely on October 17, 2017 Oct 17, 2017 10/17/17 Raymond Chen It was never meant to be long for this world.
Why does NTVDM create empty IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS files? October 9, 2017 Oct 9, 2017 10/9/17 Raymond Chen Compatibility, of course.
Alas, Microsoft Building 109 Conference Room A is no more October 3, 2017 Oct 3, 2017 10/3/17 Raymond Chen Another code word bites the dust.
Who implemented the Windows NT blue screen of death? September 26, 2017 Sep 26, 2017 09/26/17 Raymond Chen My colleague John Vert.
I guess I may as well confess that I wrote the Itanium information in the Debugging Tools for Windows package September 1, 2017 Sep 1, 2017 09/1/17 Raymond Chen The story of how I ended up being the guy who understands all these processors.
Yes, that was a horrifically awkward video, but it wasn’t the Windows 95 launch August 24, 2017 Aug 24, 2017 08/24/17 Raymond Chen Some sort of sales event, probably.
Why is the !locks command called !locks even though it debugs only critical sections? May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017 05/18/17 Raymond Chen Because those were the only kind of locks, back in the day.
The early Windows phone devices were liquid-cooled, sort of May 9, 2017 May 9, 2017 05/9/17 Raymond Chen Soda is a liquid, right?
That time a customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator April 18, 2017 Apr 18, 2017 04/18/17 Raymond Chen But whose map is right?
The gradual erosion of the SEM_NOOPENFILEERRORBOX error mode March 30, 2017 Mar 30, 2017 03/30/17 Raymond Chen It does less and less, until it basically does nothing.