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From: James Harris on 8 Aug 2010 17:49
On 8 Aug, 03:12, chitselb <chits...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 7, 9:24 pm, James Harris <james.harri...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 7 Aug, 19:55, chitselb <chits...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ...
>
> > > I was a little disappointed to be reminded that I upgraded the ROMs to
> > > BASIC 4.0, thereby eternally depriving myself of the WAIT 6502,100
>
> > Wow, that takes me back! Does it print something on the screen, maybe
> > COMMODORE with some exclamation marks 100 times? Is that it or
> > anywhere close?
>
> > James
>
> MICROSOFT! gets displayed [second_parameter] times.  There's an
> interesting article about this "feature" athttp://www.pagetable.com/?p=43
> in which Bill Gates himself (or someone doing a pretty convincing job
> of being Bill on the internet) chimes in among the commenters.

Oh no! Bill had his finger in the pie even then.

That said it is a good way to guard against repudiation of
involvement.

James
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