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Why do all DOS and Windows compiled executable files begin with the letters MZ when viewed in a hex viewer?In: Computer History |
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MZ is Mark Zbikowski
MZ are the initials of Mark Zbikowski. Aaron Reynold and Mark Zbikowski were the primary software design engineers that worked on MS-DOS 2.0 through 3.1. Mark put check into the MS-DOS loader that checked for his initials, to see if the file that was trying to load into memory was an executable file that should be executed. There are many MS-DOS developer's initials in files that are still shipping today, from Microsoft. Even mine are in code that I wrote for MS-DOS 6.22 that is currently shipping in Vista.
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