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by mpicker0 1958 days ago
I used FoxPro 2.6 back in the day. We used to ship machines to our clients, preloaded with our FoxPro application.

As computers got faster, passing the 300MHz mark, our application suddenly started crashing on startup. Apparently FoxPro tries to figure out how fast it can perform certain operations at startup time, and there's a divide-by-zero error on higher-powered machines. The machines literally got too fast!

An old discussion thread: http://computer-programming-forum.com/2-vfp/e6d3528c90cc45d2...