>From what I read, Tandy (or Microsoft) seriously frowned upon programmers sneaking their names into the code. I believe Suzuki and Hayashi special directory entries in the M100 were removed from the T102 ROM even though it didn't provide more usable space.
I think it is most likely that the message was just embedded in the code with no call to display it. That's a few bytes for the programmers to sign their names without calling any more attention to themselves. Other reasons why the address might not show as a instruction operand: It's possible that the disassembly is not 100% accurate... sometimes code disassembles as data or vice versa. Sometimes regions of memory are used as both code and data. It's possible that the address is computed, perhaps in order to obscure the location of the active portion of the theorized Easter Egg. Though I wouldn't expect that computation to be very complicated since it would waste a bunch more bytes of codespace. -- John.
