OT: Easter Eggs

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Ken Brody propounded (on Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:56:57AM -0500):
| 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.
| 
| [...]

Have a look at:
	Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site
		Easter Eggs

at http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-ee.htm

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JP
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