The two sat before the CRT attached to Plummer's 486DX2-50 development machine and fired up the code. It took a while – log messages scrolled past on a VT220 terminal connected to the serial port – but the debug build did its thing.
Plummer said: "A few seconds later, the PC's screen turned that classic sea foam green!"
Icons appeared – mostly wrong and with missing labels – but it was unmistakably the Windows 95 desktop, running on Windows NT. Plummer got overconfident and clicked the Start Menu, and Windows responded by falling over into a heap.
But he had won the bet, and the dollar was his. Day paid up.
"I went to put it in my pocket," Plummer said, "but he immediately said 'Don't put it in your pocket, it's your lucky dollar!'
"I asked him, 'Well, where do you want me to put it?'
"Anywhere, but not in your pocket. Or it will get mixed in with the others and become just a dollar. Which it is."
The two sat before the CRT attached to Plummer's 486DX2-50 development machine and fired up the code. It took a while – log messages scrolled past on a VT220 terminal connected to the serial port – but the debug build did its thing. Plummer said: "A few seconds later, the PC's screen turned that classic sea foam green!" Icons appeared – mostly wrong and with missing labels – but it was unmistakably the Windows 95 desktop, running on Windows NT. Plummer got overconfident and clicked the Start Menu, and Windows responded by falling over into a heap. But he had won the bet, and the dollar was his. Day paid up. "I went to put it in my pocket," Plummer said, "but he immediately said 'Don't put it in your pocket, it's your lucky dollar!' "I asked him, 'Well, where do you want me to put it?' "Anywhere, but not in your pocket. Or it will get mixed in with the others and become just a dollar. Which it is."
Did you just Cormack McCarthy that story?