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Reelin | 5 years ago

> Turned out a lot of people were running unstable, overclocked hardware sold to them by vendors who had fraudulently misrepresented the hardware.

The original devblog from 2005 is (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=35...). Aside: Upon pulling that up, I recognized the author as the one who wrote my favorite article about undefined behavior (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=63...).

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pcnix|5 years ago

The author is Raymond Chen, and the blog is probably the single most influential blog on windows internals. He has decades of amazing posts that are well worth a read.

colejohnson66|5 years ago

And comments! Until Microsoft moves the blog URLs again and breaks every link and deletes every comment.

MauranKilom|5 years ago

And many of them are condensed into a book he wrote. Same title as the blog.