From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'well, zero is less isn't it?'" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: the importance of the timer rollover bug in Win9x
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <017401c91465$8b64eef0$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C97CC9.5020602@etr-usa.com>
Warren Young wrote on 11 September 2008 21:17:
> What you had was a bug that was absolutely deterministic, which affected
> hundreds of millions of machines over many years. Multiply it out and
> you come to something like 100 billion times the bug could have
> happened. Sounds like a programmer's dream, right? A bug you can count
> on to happen that reliably with such a huge installed base....yet it
> took ~5 years to diagnose and fix.
>
> For such a bug to last so long, you're looking for probability of
> discovery down around 1 in 10 million.
You make it sound as if win95 actually /did/ have a one in ten million
chance of staying up for fortynine days! I can assure you, it was a lot less
than that ... :)
cheers,
DaveK
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2008-09-11 16:08 ` setup.exe --quiet-mode Matthew Woehlke
2008-09-11 16:39 ` Dave Korn
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2008-09-11 17:00 ` Dave Korn
2008-09-11 20:18 ` the importance of the timer rollover bug in Win9x Warren Young
2008-09-11 23:25 ` Dave Korn [this message]
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