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This reminds me of my time at IBM a million years ago. Attempting to boot your PC with a non-system floppy that was formatted by OS/2 would yield an error messa
by CWuestefeld 3y ago
This reminds me of my time at IBM a million years ago. Attempting to boot your PC with a non-system floppy that was formatted by OS/2 would yield an error message like (I forget the actual numbers)
SYS!00026
SYS!00153
It was pointed out that absolutely zero people would ever understand this. The response was, "well, we can't write it in English because that would unfairly privilege one language, and we need something very small to fit in the boot sector of the floppy".
Somebody responded to that with an ASCII art floppy, something like
+--+-+--\
| +-+ |
| O |
| |
+-------+
That seemed a really good compromise to me, but those responsible shrugged and stuck with the inscrutable error codes.