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Originally Posted by Gandulf
They seem to have a lot of bugs for a device that's only real function is to read books, are they a part of Microsoft  |
The first law of software: All software sucks. (More specifically, all software has bugs. The only real questions are whether the bugs impact people, and how many people they impact, and how severe the bugs are.)
(And yes, *all* software. Even 'hello world' probably has hidden bugs in the startup code the linker added to the program. The canonical case of this is the horrible x86 hardware hack that is the A20 gate, the (originally) keyboard controller feature, (later) CPU pin, (later yet) special CPU bus cycle that turned on wrapping of the 1MiB--1MiB+64K range of physical memory to 0--64K. It took years to track the actual bug down that forced the addition of this hardware misfeature -- and it was in the startup code added to programs by a specific ancient Pascal compiler:
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-a20-...asnt-wordstar/). This caused literally decades of pain for hardware vendors, emulator developers, etc. The thing only started being removed from PCs in the last eight years or so!)