5 Mar
2005
5 Mar
'05
3:15 a.m.
John Allain wrote:
For people who haven't read it, here's what it
said:
"IIRC, Killdall stood up in court and entered a keystrokes at a PC
running MSDOS and brought up an easter egg he had programmed
into CP/M years earlier, proving they had used his code."
"Back in the mid-1990s, PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak wrote
something curious about this operating system. He said he knew of an
easter egg present in CP/M in the late 1970s that caused Kildall's name
and a copyright notice to be printed. Very early versions (presumably
before the 1.0 release) of DOS had this same easter egg."
I call bullshit/urban legend. John C. Dvorak has been fooled many, many times
before (my favorite is a 286 he reviewed that he claimed blew the doors off of
everything else; it was found later that the benchmarks he ran on it had been
fudged by the manufacturer by deliberatly altering the internal clock to run
slow) so I automatically invalidate his story.
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