Engineer: "Because the 386 tends to crash a lot, we built a watchdog for it." Programmer: "and what does that do?" Engineer: "it saves the state of the machine, reboots it, and then restores the state." Programmer: "and then?" Engineer: "and then it keeps on doing that because it keeps crashing and we have to manually force it off and on" Programmer: "did you at any point consider what is happening when you restore the crashed state that you saved?" Engineer: "Oh..."