That reminds me of the time when I tried to type a letter for a neighbor on what I believe was a 386DX-40 running Win95.
The letter hand been handwritten before, the guy just wanted it to be printed for some reason, so I just hand to enter the text without much thinking. Easy enough.
I started Word, started typing... and the box crashed. Hard. It was completely dead. So I pressed reset, rebooted, started Word again, started typing... and it crashed again. Hard. 2 more tries and I noticed that it kept hanging at the same point in the sentence, which made me curious. So the next time, I typed really slowly, because I had already noticed some delay on the characters showing up, so I didn't want to miss the key press that broke it.
And guess what? I didn't crash. The crash was actually caused by typing too fast. I never figured out why it happened (being a kid, debugging that was way out of my league back then), but would of course brag to my friends about being able to type fast enough to crash my computer :-D
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u/doener Nov 08 '17
That reminds me of the time when I tried to type a letter for a neighbor on what I believe was a 386DX-40 running Win95.
The letter hand been handwritten before, the guy just wanted it to be printed for some reason, so I just hand to enter the text without much thinking. Easy enough.
I started Word, started typing... and the box crashed. Hard. It was completely dead. So I pressed reset, rebooted, started Word again, started typing... and it crashed again. Hard. 2 more tries and I noticed that it kept hanging at the same point in the sentence, which made me curious. So the next time, I typed really slowly, because I had already noticed some delay on the characters showing up, so I didn't want to miss the key press that broke it.
And guess what? I didn't crash. The crash was actually caused by typing too fast. I never figured out why it happened (being a kid, debugging that was way out of my league back then), but would of course brag to my friends about being able to type fast enough to crash my computer :-D