>> 1827: MOV AX,0001H ; R.I.P. L.V.B.
>> Any guesses as to the comment's meaning?
>
>Didn't read it. Ludwig Van Beethoven (d.1827) seems
>to work so the comment says nothing. IE 1827 is 1827.
As I remember the story, the comment was on a piece of
data which was in octal (either the program was a PDP-8
or PDP-11 piece of code), so it wasn't obvious unless you
converted to decimal that it could be tied to Beethoven
(other than the comment, which was the *only* one in the
entire source)
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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