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> Turned out a lot of people were running unstable, overclocked hardware sold to them by vendors who had fraudulently misrepresented the hardware. The original
by Reelin 6y ago
> Turned out a lot of people were running unstable, overclocked hardware sold to them by vendors who had fraudulently misrepresented the hardware.
The original devblog from 2005 is (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=35923 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=35...). Aside: Upon pulling that up, I recognized the author as the one who wrote my favorite article about undefined behavior (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=633 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=63...).
- pcnix 6y agoThe author is Raymond Chen, and the blog is probably the single most influential blog on windows internals. He has decades of amazing posts that are well worth a read.
- colejohnson66 6y agoAnd comments! Until Microsoft moves the blog URLs again and breaks every link and deletes every comment.
- MauranKilom 6y agoAnd many of them are condensed into a book he wrote. Same title as the blog.