An excellent article. Bill Gates himself posted a comment: <a href="https://www.pagetable.com/?p=43#comment-1033" rel="nofollow">https://www.pagetable.com/?p=43#comment-1033</a>
Related. Others?<p><i>Bill Gates' Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit Basic</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30110068">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30110068</a> - Jan 2022 (1 comment)
I have a question, can something like this survive in today's world? or have the disassembling tools now too advanced to easily wipe something like this when cloning.
On the Altair Basic, good achievement; but giving how fast Forth was, I'd guess that using a fixed point and a optional floating point for a 8800 machine it would send Basic to NUL.
If you copy someone's code, always add a bunch of easter eggs saying the code belongs to company X, Y and Z. Then nobody else can claim it as their own.
Bill gates is the only remaining hacker one can look upto. Yes he was ruthless but also the amount of work he did for humanity was orders of magnitude more than others.<p>The current crop of rich folks are really the wrong uns and come from a deep history of bad families. Rotten blood really shows.
I wouldn't call that an easter egg. IMHO it's rather a backdoor. A covert method to gain access to information about the system. Indeed what is the benefit to the user? No need to feed the mythology about BG. He was not a developer. Period.