Microsoft призналась в очередном ээ.. недоработке в Windows ME (виснет на компьютерах >850MHz). Но интересно не это, а их "метод" измерения скорости компьютера:
Windows attempts to estimate the computer's speed by reading the keyboard repeatedly for 55 milliseconds. However, the number of iterations may exceed 65,535 on computers with a very fast read character BIOS function and overflow the variable that holds the count. Windows then assigns a small value to a number that causes slower system handling.
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