On 15-Jan-2001 Ken Yap wrote:
>|i came to think that peraps m stands for MIT, or alt. someones name
>|like Michael etc.
>
> Not MIT, the author was a German, Gert Doering. His name, possibly, but
> it would have to be a middle initial or his mother's name or maybe even
> his site muc.de.
As others have said, the 'm' is 'modem'.
> People do name things that could possibly be a
> references to themselves, kind of a sly attempt at immortality. The
> French discover of gallium said that he named it after France (Gaul),
> but his name was LeCoq (Gallus) so it's suspected he wanted to sneak his
> name into the periodic table.
For an example closer to your PC, check out the first two bytes of any MS
executable from DOS 2.0 .EXE right up to current PE executables (which have a
DOS 2.0 header).
'MZ' == Mark Zibowski. Guess who wrote the DOS 2.0 .EXE loader?
LeCoq was a good deal more subtle, methinks.
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