Post #2882808
2026-05-11 23:05 UTC
@hailey@hails.org @osnews@mstdn.social Surprisingly, this is not the first time a Microsoft product has done this.
https://community.spiceworks.com/t/microsoft-veterans-worst-bug-to-be-shipped-with-windows-was-from-the-most-unexpected-place/1239088
"Dave’s game engine for Space Cadet Pinball [a game shipped with Windows 95] would end up hogging an entire CPU core due to the lack of a frame rate limiter."
The test engineers at my company used to run Space Cadet Pinball on our test workstations to max out the CPU while they tested out our software!
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