The time one of my colleagues debugged a line-of-business application

The bogus delivery story at the end made the whole thing worth it. This day and age it might even merit a visit from Homeland Security!

I really enjoy reading well written software development stories from 90s, like this one. It just has a different vibe, emotion compared to the 'modern' stories. Makes me wish I was born a decade earlier, in a western country :)

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That&#x27;s the problem of an OS without proper process isolation and without privilege protection. The bad old days.

Resisting the urge to put &quot;operating system&quot; in quotes :-)<p>This kind of nonsense would not have been possible on *nix, OS&#x2F;2 or VMS back in the early 90s. (written as somebody who had to write a fair amount of C code back then for such things in addition to the scourge of Win16)<p>Still, hats off for debugging such a goofy work-around with a poorly chosen place for setjmp() to receive a longjmp().

Aaaaand this is where folks that have an MBA joke about engineers ineptitude.