Microsoft Windows development anecdote: design more than 64 peripherals USB Cart of Death to test stability

CTOnews.com, November 25, in a pilot preview of the podcast Dave's Garage, two senior Windows developers talked about an anecdote about the development of a Windows system. Microsoft specially designed USB Cart of Death to test the stability of the system's peripherals.

Win98 system began to support USB peripherals, Microsoft Windows kernel team and related developers need to constantly improve the system code to improve the reliability of USB, so they designed USB Cart of Death.

Based on the mall shopping cart, the USB Cart of Death contains 3 mice, 4 keyboards, 1 printer, hard drive box and various USB peripherals, and is connected through more than 3 hubs, all adding up to more than 64 peripherals.

Dave's Garage Podcast is hosted by Dave Plummer, who previously helped create the Windows Task Manager, Windows Pinball, Calc, and so on. CTOnews.com attached the pilot notice as follows:

This podcast is hosted by Raymond Chen, a veteran in the field of Windows development with more than 30 years of experience and the author of The Old New Thing.

Chen recalls that Microsoft's development team referred to it as USB Cart of Death, which, once connected, usually caused the system's blue screen to crash.

Chen later said that after fixing a USB error that caused the blue screen, the connected Windows device still had a blue screen again, but the cause of the crash was different.