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Why did MS-DOS applications built using Turbo Pascal fail to start with a division by zero error on faster systems?
On faster MS-DOS systems, it wasn't entirely uncommon for applications built using Borland's Turbo Pascal to fail to start, and (before exiting back to the command prompt) to report a division by zero ...