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6 unusual facts about Software bug


AMD 10h

In November 2007 AMD stopped delivery of Barcelona processors after a bug in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) of stepping B2 was discovered that could rarely lead to a race condition and thus a system lockup.

Caller ID

Modems are notoriously problematic; very few modems support the British Telecom standard in hardware; drivers for those that do often have errors that prevent CLID information from being recognised.

Champions of Europe

There is a glitch (which some players exploit in order to cheat) that sometimes attributes a goal scored to the wrong team.

O'Leary Manager 2000

An unfortunate bug in the game allows the player to gain a huge sum of money (around 70m) if the club goes into a certain amount of debt, which pretty much negates the need for financial planning.

Phil Hellmuth

On December 20, 2008 Hellmuth was playing $200/$400 heads up limit hold em on UltimateBet, where he was at the time a spokesman, when an apparent software glitch occurred.

Technical Difficulties

Software bugs that make it difficult or impossible to perform some action using a particular computer program


Cumulative voting

Some Bugzilla installations allow cumulative voting to decide which software bugs most urgently need correcting.

Icy Tower

Changes in the release number denote a release of a patch, i.e. a modified executable file purpose of which is to fix software bugs present in previous releases of the game.

Philip Greenspun

Among software engineers, Greenspun is known for his Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

SuperPower 2

After playing for a long period of time (the exact amount varies from game to game), a bug called Autarky sets in.


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