> it was "too fast" to run Battle Chess [not sure how that was, but memory] The Clipper database program ran a check on startup to see how fast the CPU was (it

> it was "too fast" to run Battle Chess [not sure how that was, but memory] The Clipper database program ran a check on startup to see how fast the CPU was (it ran some code and timed how long it took). "Modern" CPUs are fast enough that the runtime of the function is effectively zero, so when it gets used as the denominator of a division a bit later on in the startup the program crashes on a divide by zero. http://computer-programming-forum.com/19-clipper/2cd478f1fcf154cb.htm http://computer-programming-forum.com/19-clipper/2cd478f1fcf...