OT: Easter Eggs

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bob Stockler (Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:39:19 -0500):

> Radio Shack and/or Tandy Xenix had what may or may not fit being
> classified as an Easter Egg, but it was an interesting kernel
> error message anyway, inserted by Frank Dudra IV:
>
>   Shut her down Scotty, she's sucking mud.
>
> I now forget what one had to do to get that written on the screen.

As I recall, it was generated by the Z80 I/O control processor, which
would check the stack pointer at the start/end of the main loop.  If
the pointer changed (which "should never happen") it would display
that message.

Note:  I saw the message first-hand at least twice.

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