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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug comes to mind

• robomartin 7y ago
  Yeah, that was a good one. Engineering of good reliable products, whether software-only or multidisciplinary has nothing whatsoever to do with the ability to enter or edit text quickly or efficiently. I am not sure they care --given what they wrote I don't think they do-- but it is very wrong for a respected entity like MIT to spread false information, as is the case with the nonsense they wrote in this CS course regarding vi/m. At the very least it betrays an utter lack of knowledge of history and, even worse, a fabrication of a preferred narrative and reality. These editors did not come to exist for any reason other than we had crappy character-only screens, crappy keyboards, no GUI's and terminals that communicated with computers at 1200 BAUD. Package all of that together and the only thing that makes sense is something like vi. In that context vi made sense. In fact, it was necessary. Evolve all of that to modern hardware, UI's and performance and one would never author such a tool, not even close, in fact, one would be laughed out of the room --and rightly so.