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It looks like "brain damaged" was the developer's go-to insult when frustrated :D 2024-04-25 19:35 ~/sort/dl/MS-DOS % grep -nri 'brain[ -]damage' . ./v4.0/src

It looks like "brain damaged" was the developer's go-to insult when frustrated :D 2024-04-25 19:35 ~/sort/dl/MS-DOS % grep -nri 'brain[ -]damage' . ./v4.0/src/DOS/STRIN.ASM:70:; Brain-damaged TP ignored ^F in case his BIOS did not flush the ./v4.0/src/DOS/PATH.ASM:24:; MZ 19 Jan 1983 Brain damaged applications rely on success ./v4.0/src/DOS/FCBIO.ASM:28:; MZ 15 Dec 1983 Brain damaged programs close FCBs multiple ./v4.0/src/DOS/FCBIO2.ASM:28:; MZ 15 Dec 1983 Brain damaged programs close FCBs multiple ./v4.0/src/BIOS/MSBIO1.ASM:82:; REV 2.15 7/13/83 ARR BECAUSE IBM IS FUNDAMENTALY BRAIN DAMAGED, AND ./v4.0/src/CMD/PRINT/PRINT_R.ASM:1772: ; See if brain damaged user entered

blobbers 2y ago
Let's bring back those DOS 4.0 period sayings. Does this mean if you happen to be talking to BillG you could talk about brain damaged programs and he'd nod appreciatively?
- glhaynes 2y ago
  It was BillG who famously called the 286 "brain damaged" after all. EDIT: Upon doing a web search, actually it looks like it was "brain dead".
  - wglb 2y ago
    He went the only one. Most of us did.
- asveikau 2y ago
  Somehow seeing the phrases "brain damaged" and "DOS 4.0 period" makes me think... Bill Cosby's "Brain Damage" bit, from the album "Himself": 1982 DOS 4.0: 1988 Those comments also could have also sat in the tree for a few years.
- mormegil 2y ago
  Oh, you mean like it's some period saying? I'm using it normally. But then again, it's not like I'm keeping my finger on the pulse of the current trends... See also http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/brain-damaged.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/brain-damaged.html
  - helpmefindpurp 2y ago
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ssklash 2y ago
Super cool to see MZ initials, which are for Mark Zbikowski. They are still to this day at the beginning of every Windows executable/PE file.
- aquir 2y ago
  What? Is this what MZ means? Fascinating!
  - stubborngoat 2y ago
    "He was the designer of the MS-DOS executable file format, and the headers of that file format start with his initials: the ASCII characters 'MZ' (0x4D, 0x5A)" Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zbikowski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zbikowski
    - thrdbndndn 2y ago
      > In 2006, he was honored for 25 years of service with the company, the third employee to reach this milestone, after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. He retired the same year from Microsoft Considering he "only" joined MS in 1981 (which was found in 1975?), I'm surprised no more people between him and Bill stayed at MS. Also shouldn't Paul Allen still count (from Wikipedia, "Allen resigned from his position on the Microsoft board of directors on November 9, 2000, but he remained as a senior strategy advisor to the company's executives.")? Edit: wow, never knew he worked at Valve, too.
      - hnthrowaway0328 2y ago
        Early Microsoft seemed to be a pretty hardcore environment. I guess many employees came and got burned out in a few years.
        knute 2y ago
        And/or they cashed out $TEXAS in stock and rode off into the sunset.
HeckFeck 2y ago
> ./v4.0/src/BIOS/MSBIO1.ASM:82:; REV 2.15 7/13/83 ARR BECAUSE IBM IS FUNDAMENTALY BRAIN DAMAGED, AND Hardly surprising. If you grep the leaked NT3.5 sources for the f-word, you will find similar comments directed towards IBM.
sebtron 2y ago
Looks as if someone did an s/retarded/brain damaged/g before making the code public :)
- Uvix 2y ago
  That was my first thought, but that wouldn’t explain the hyphenated versions in there.
- cdchn 2y ago
  TP was apparently someones name before they force-pushed to change it too.
dhosek 2y ago
I kept reading those as “Brian damaged” and thinking man, MZ really hated Brian.

blobbers 2y ago

Let's bring back those DOS 4.0 period sayings. Does this mean if you happen to be talking to BillG you could talk about brain damaged programs and he'd nod appreciatively?

glhaynes 2y ago
It was BillG who famously called the 286 "brain damaged" after all. EDIT: Upon doing a web search, actually it looks like it was "brain dead".
- wglb 2y ago
  He went the only one. Most of us did.
asveikau 2y ago
Somehow seeing the phrases "brain damaged" and "DOS 4.0 period" makes me think... Bill Cosby's "Brain Damage" bit, from the album "Himself": 1982 DOS 4.0: 1988 Those comments also could have also sat in the tree for a few years.
mormegil 2y ago
Oh, you mean like it's some period saying? I'm using it normally. But then again, it's not like I'm keeping my finger on the pulse of the current trends... See also http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/brain-damaged.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/brain-damaged.html
- helpmefindpurp 2y ago
  [dead]

ssklash 2y ago

Super cool to see MZ initials, which are for Mark Zbikowski. They are still to this day at the beginning of every Windows executable/PE file.

aquir 2y ago
What? Is this what MZ means? Fascinating!
- stubborngoat 2y ago
  "He was the designer of the MS-DOS executable file format, and the headers of that file format start with his initials: the ASCII characters 'MZ' (0x4D, 0x5A)" Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zbikowski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zbikowski
  - thrdbndndn 2y ago
    > In 2006, he was honored for 25 years of service with the company, the third employee to reach this milestone, after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. He retired the same year from Microsoft Considering he "only" joined MS in 1981 (which was found in 1975?), I'm surprised no more people between him and Bill stayed at MS. Also shouldn't Paul Allen still count (from Wikipedia, "Allen resigned from his position on the Microsoft board of directors on November 9, 2000, but he remained as a senior strategy advisor to the company's executives.")? Edit: wow, never knew he worked at Valve, too.
    - hnthrowaway0328 2y ago
      Early Microsoft seemed to be a pretty hardcore environment. I guess many employees came and got burned out in a few years.
      - knute 2y ago
        And/or they cashed out $TEXAS in stock and rode off into the sunset.

HeckFeck 2y ago

> ./v4.0/src/BIOS/MSBIO1.ASM:82:; REV 2.15 7/13/83 ARR BECAUSE IBM IS FUNDAMENTALY BRAIN DAMAGED, AND Hardly surprising. If you grep the leaked NT3.5 sources for the f-word, you will find similar comments directed towards IBM.

sebtron 2y ago

Looks as if someone did an s/retarded/brain damaged/g before making the code public :)

Uvix 2y ago
That was my first thought, but that wouldn’t explain the hyphenated versions in there.
cdchn 2y ago
TP was apparently someones name before they force-pushed to change it too.

dhosek 2y ago

I kept reading those as “Brian damaged” and thinking man, MZ really hated Brian.