Raymond Chen discusses the history, debugging challenges, and design decisions of classic Windows operating systems with Dave Plummer.
Windows Pinball, IBM, debugging, the confidential coffee maker, losing your car keys, and more: Dave interviews Raymond Chen, a 30-year developer on Windows at Microsoft. For my book on Asperger's/ASD, please check out: amzn.to/3GcdeUM
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> Windows 98 included TweakUI in the bonus content of the CD, but in future releases it was taken out because what would happen was people would find it in the bonus content of the CD and they'd run it, and be like "woah this is really cool!" And then they'd just go nuts checking stuff. Then their system would start acting really weird, because they just went off and checked random stuff, and then they'd wonder "hey, my mouse doesn't work anymore?" because they set the mouse sensi…