Application compatibility for Windows 95 crashed a cash register
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Some time ago, I told the story of the time the development manager for Windows 95 bought one copy of every PC program in the Egghead Software store.
I learned that in addition to stunning the store manager, this creative operation almost didn’t work: The store’s cash register crashed whenever the total exceeded $10,000. Because like, c’mon, who would buy $10,000 of stuff by just walking into a store? If you’re going to buy that much stuff, you would use a purchase order, right?
The order had to be broken up into chunks so that each chunk totaled less than $10,000.
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- Windows 95 crashes a cash register.
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