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Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

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388 points zdw | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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RomanPushkin ◴[24 Jun 25 14:38 UTC] No.44366760[source]▶
It's kinda cool and shows that there are real people behind corporations. Some folks with lots of $$$ say "I build this" (Zuck often says that), stealing the credit of accomplishment from small little people. While real small little people leave the note in history - "nope, it's us who put our souls into making this happen". Of course, Steve Jobs would ban this.
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mrcwinn ◴[24 Jun 25 14:54 UTC] No.44366930[source]▶
Oh please.

It's unlikely Jobs, having returned to an Apple in crisis, personally knew about some obscure ROM image, its location buried in secret assembly code. More likely, one of those "real people" removed it doing some cleanup.

Jobs routinely and publicly spoke about the amazing people who work for Apple. He spoke with Walt Mossberg about how important it is to build a great team and foster creativity.

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1. ThrowawayR2 ◴[24 Jun 25 16:45 UTC] No.44368145[source]▶
That's meaningless, even coming out of Steve Jobs mouth. Every corporate executive publicly speaks about the "amazing people who work for them" and the "importance of building great teams and fostering creativity". Talk is cheap and projecting a corporate image is a core part of their job.