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Me working with the OS (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by bi_tux to c/[email protected]

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This happend to me right noww as I tried to write a gui task manager for the GNU/Linux OS

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

My first programming related memory is of the QBasic interpreter.

I had written some code I was quite happy with, but not saved it yet. As part of a subroutine for sound output, I quickly wrote a loop from 20 to 20000 to output a test signal over 1 second each with that frequency via the PC speaker and hit execute.

Realizing my mistake, It being MS-DOS and thus single-threaded, I couldn't Ctrl+C out of it without killing QBasic altogether and losing my code. I couldn't turn town the PC speaker.

I ended up closing various doors between the PC and me and waiting it out.