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Article #4925Re: Authors' Initials in Program Names
From: Ralf....
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 1990 11:34
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 1990 11:34
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In article <2915@canisius.UUCP>, jarnot@canisius.UUCP (Dinsdale Piranha) wrote:
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}This is sort of on the same lines...every .EXE file under MS-DOS contains the
}initials of the Microsoft programmer (forgot the name) that wrote the
}majority of MS-DOS...the first two bytes, in ASCII, are MZ...
Mark Zbikowski (sp?). His initials also show up in the memory allocation
chain, where the "type" of memory block is "M" for all except the last block,
which is "Z".
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!hagbard!eru!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!Ralf....@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU From: Ralf....@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Authors' Initials in Program Names Message-ID: <270dc148@ralf> Date: 6 Oct 90 11:34:32 GMT Sender: ra...@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Lines: 15 Posted: Sat Oct 6 12:34:32 1990 In-Reply-To: <2915@canisius.UUCP> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit