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Commodore Pet - Microsoft Joke

In PET Microsoft Basic type the command WAIT 6502. The screen will fill with the text MICROSOFT!

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Andy Armstrong on 05-10-2000

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Joel writes:: As far as I know, this only works in the earliest versions of Pet BASIC and it was inserted by Bill Gates himself in order to assert Microsoft's copyright on Pet BASIC after he had had an argument with Commodore founder Jack Tramiel. People who have examined it closely especially admire the way Mr. Gates hid the code in a table of floating point constants.; 41 of 47 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

oblivion writes:: This only works on basic 3.0 I think, and you have to type 'wait6502,x' where x is a number from 0-255. 0 will fill the screen, and 1-255 will print that quantity of microsoft!'s on the screen.; 16 of 20 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

Annonymus writes:: All of the Commondore PETs uses MOS 6502 prosessor thecnology...; 0 of 8 people found this comment helpful. Did you?