Re: Authors' Initials in Program Names

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From: Dinsdale Piranha
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 1990 00:56

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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...

					Kevin

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  ...!{decvax|watmath|allegra|rocksvax}!sunybcs!canisius!jarnot    
                      jar...@klaatu.cs.canisius.edu     
Canisius College:  the small Buffalo college that KNOWS it's small, but
		     still has a big ego anyways...

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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!canisius!jarnot
From: jarnot@canisius.UUCP (Dinsdale Piranha)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Authors' Initials in Program Names
Summary: On the same lines...
Message-ID: <2915@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 90 00:56:50 GMT
References: <1990Oct1.142436.20757@mozart.amd.com> <1990Oct2.200121.17030@cbnewsj.att.com>
Organization: Ernest Pythagoras Primary School, Clerkenwell
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Posted: Sat Oct  6 01:56:50 1990
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