#error “Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer.”

Heh. Maybe a reference to this: http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24

The following text occurs in a 1949 novel about addiction called The Man with The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren:

"He’d fished a nickel out of his pocket and slipped it into her palm. ‘Here’s a nickel, kid. Call me up when you’re eighteen. Right now I got to do some shoppin’ around.’"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Arm_(n...

PDF: http://ihavebook.org/books/download/pdf/345035/the-man-with-...

I think "here's a nickel, kid" used to be some kind of hackneyed phrase, back when you could actually give a kid a nickel and they could get something for it.

If we work harder, we can probably dig up earlier references. In any case, this particular here's-a-nickel-kid seriously predates Dilbert.

Here is a very close pre-Dilbert reference. In 1992, a new Broadway musical opened called My Favorite Year (setting: 1950s). In it, a song called "Larger Than Life" features a here's-a-nickel-kid line. (This is based on a 1983 movie of the same name, which doesn't have such a line, as far as I can tell: found an English .srt subtitle file and searched).

Are there any CPU's with less than 32 bit floating point hardware, triggering the error? There are lots without floating point hardware, but the software routines would emulate >= 32 bit.