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mhoes
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Re: The earliest known Easter egg in software
10/26/23 03:36 PM
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> The earliest known Easter egg in software in general is one placed in the "make"
> command for PDP-6/PDP-10 computers sometime in October 1967–October 1968, wherein if
> the user attempts to create a file named "love" by typing "make love", the program
> responds "not war?" before proceeding.
>
Yup. And I don't know exactly when it was introduced, but at least on some Unix variants the 'make' command did it the other way around as well: When you type "make war", it responds with "not love ?"






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* The earliest known Easter egg in software GatKong 10/26/23 12:04 AM
. * Re: The earliest known Easter egg in software mhoes  10/26/23 03:36 PM
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