Gosh. I remember Borland's Sprint word processor needing a patch on 486 machines, because a timing loop finished in zero ticks of the 18.2 Hz clock on them. (Still my favourite wp program, all the books done on it.)
Perhaps this is why QEMM386's licences were only valid for a few (ten?) years - they knew it'd fail when processors got too fast for a race condition somewhere.
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Gosh. I remember Borland's Sprint word processor needing a patch on 486 machines, because a timing loop finished in zero ticks of the 18.2 Hz clock on them. (Still my favourite wp program, all the books done on it.)
Perhaps this is why QEMM386's licences were only valid for a few (ten?) years - they knew it'd fail when processors got too fast for a race condition somewhere.