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runjake on Jan 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: If you move your mouse continually the query may n...

An aside of historical trivia: On an Amiga 1000, you used to be able to wiggle the mouse "too fast" and cause the machine to crash with its infamous "GURU MEDITATION ERROR"[1].

1. http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergals/2013/02/full-4656-5091...

gmjosack on Jan 4, 2014 [–]

I wrote an ncurses frontend to the the ticketing system used at a job one time. One of the users complained that if they resized their terminal window rapidly, larger and smaller, that is would crash.

The fix was telling them to stop doing that. :)

userbinator on Jan 5, 2014 | [–]

I guess both of these were related to nested interrupts somehow?

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