RE: Confidential- Windows98 Source Code

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got a copy too - it was inside a fortune cookie I had at lunchtime !

  ;-)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Lewis [SMTP:CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET]
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 1998 3:36 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Confidential- Windows98 Source Code
> 
> WOW Al, how'd you get THAT out of Microsoft <BG> - LOVE IT !!!
> 
> Chuck
> 
> Al Barsa, Jr. wrote:
> 
> > Confidential- Windows98 Source Code
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >
> > /*
> >   TOP SECRET Microsoft   Code
> >   Project: Chicago(tm)
> >   Projected release-date: Summer 1998
> > */
> >
> > #include "win31.h"
> > #include "win95.h"
> > #include "evenmore.h"
> > #include "oldstuff.h"
> > #include "billrulz.h"
> > #define INSTALL = HARD
> >
> > char make_prog_look_big[1600000];
> >
> > void main()
> > {
> >     while (!CRASHED)
> >     {
> >         display_copyright_message();
> >         display_bill_rules_message();
> >         do_nothing_loop();
> >         if (first_time_installation)
> >         {
> >             make_50_megabyte_swapfile();
> >             do_nothing_loop();
> >             totally_screw_up_HPFS_file_system();
> >             search_and_destroy_the_rest_of_OS/2();
> >             hang_system();
> >         }
> >         write_something(anything);
> >         display_copyright_message();
> >         do_nothing_loop();
> >         do_some_stuff();
> >         if (still_not_crashed)
> >         {
> >             display_copyright_message();
> >             do_nothing_loop();
> >             basically_run_windows_3.1();
> >             do_nothing_loop();
> >             do_nothing_loop();
> >         }
> >     }
> >
> >     if (detect_cache())
> >         disable_cache();
> >
> >     if (fast_cpu())
> >     {
> >         set_wait_states(lots);
> >         set_mouse(speed, very_slow);
> >         set_mouse(action, jumpy);
> >         set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);
> >     }
> >
> >     /* printf("Welcome to Windows 3.11"); */
> >     /* printf("Welcome to Windows 95"); */
> >     printf("Welcome to Windows 98");
> >     if (system_ok())
> >         crash(to_dos_prompt);
> >     else
> >         system_memory = open("a:\swp0001.swp", O_CREATE);
> >
> >     while (something)
> >     {
> >         sleep(5);
> >         get_user_input();
> >         sleep(5);
> >         act_on_user_input();
> >         sleep(5);
> >     }
> >     create_general_protection_fault();
> > }
> >
> > Al Barsa, Jr.
> 
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