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system~1 RESTO~1: Delete Them? EXE headers (Users)

posted by Arjay, 21.01.2013, 00:10

> Thanx for the interesting bit of history. I didn't know that MZ stood for
> M. Zbikowski. :)
:) The use of his initials on MCB's are documented somewhere but I could find a ref easily online so I probably learnt that fact from one of my books. When first working with Win95 I remember realising that there had been a continued tradition of carrying on using his initials elsewhere either by Mark or others. Mark left Microsoft on Friday 9th June 2006. There is a interview with him but I haven't watched it.

If you like learning about the history of how DOS, Windows has evolved then Raymond Chen's blog Oldnewthing is often interesting, e.g. the posts Why does a corrupted binary sometimes result in "Program too big to fit in memory"? What's the difference between the COM and EXE extensions? are relevant to this particular thread.

[EDIT] - In the what's the difference post Raymond may give the casual reader the impression that a .COM program can't start with MZ when I can assure you that it can but that presents problems under many situations unsuprisingly....

Complete thread:

• system~1 RESTO~1: Delete Them? - CluelessInSeattl, 17.01.2013, 17:44 (Users)
  • system~1 RESTO~1: Delete Them? - Zyzzle, 17.01.2013, 23:26
  • system~1 RESTO~1: Delete Them? - Rugxulo, 18.01.2013, 18:09
    • system~1 RESTO~1: Delete Them? - CluelessInSeattl, 20.01.2013, 15:46
      • system~1 RESTO~1: Delete Them? EXE headers - Arjay, 20.01.2013, 19:49
        • system~1 RESTO~1: Delete Them? EXE headers - bocke, 20.01.2013, 22:32
          • system~1 RESTO~1: Delete Them? EXE headers - Arjay, 21.01.2013, 00:10