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Wiecie skąd wzięło się początkowe MZ w plikach wykonywalnych systemów DOS i Windows?
Oto odpowiedź:

Mark Zbikowski (born March 21, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) aka Mark J. Zbikowski aka “Zibo” is a Microsoft Senior Software Designer. He started working at the company only a few years after its inception, leading efforts in MS-DOS, OS/2, Cairo and Windows NT. In 2006 he was honored for 25 years of service with the company, the first employee to reach this milestone other than Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

He was the designer of the DOS executable file format, used in MS-DOS executable files, and his initials grace the headers of that file format. The magic number of this type of file is the ASCII string ‘MZ’ (’4D 5A‘ in a disk editor, but written as: 0x5A4D in programs).

Szkoda tylko, że Mark odszedł 9 czerwca tego roku z Microsoftu. Wywiad z nim można zobaczyć na Channel9.

Źródło: Mark Zbikowski - wikipedia