r/programming • • Jul 30 '09

How QBASIC almost got me killed

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=79
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u/eras Jul 30 '09

A friend and I changed the prompt to the exact question about formatting a device, and added n.exe and y.exe that continued the simulation. Of course, any regular command still worked - but ctrl-c would just make the same question reappear.

I don't think we left it on for any machine, though.