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Article #4926Re: Authors' Initials in Program Names
From: Risto Lankinen
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 1990 12:11
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 1990 12:11
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jarnot@canisius.UUCP (Dinsdale Piranha) writes: >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... There's also another MS product, GW-Basic, which is explained being acronym of 'Gee Which Basic' by mister *W*illiam *G*ates ... Terv: Risto Lankinen -- Risto Lankinen / product specialist *************************************** Nokia Data Systems, Technology Dept * 2 2 * THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK * 2 -1 is PRIME! Now working on 2 +1 * replies: ri...@yj.data.nokia.fi ***************************************
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!fuug!tuura!risto From: risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Authors' Initials in Program Names Message-ID: <804@tuura.UUCP> Date: 9 Oct 90 12:11:40 GMT References: <1990Oct1.142436.20757@mozart.amd.com> <1990Oct2.200121.17030@cbnewsj.att.com> <2915@canisius.UUCP> Organization: Nokia Data Systems Oy Lines: 16 Posted: Tue Oct 9 13:11:40 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit