That's not a Windows creation.
That sounds like a Microsoft programmer that used to work for IBM.
Long before Microsoft existed, IBM used to initialize all of the memory on their mainframes to 0xDEADBEEF so that when you got a crash dump and you saw that in a register, you knew you had an uninitialized variable somewhere. Fun and pragmatic at the same time. Gotta love it.
Draining water from Drive A:
Drive A: on spin cycle. Please wait.
(at which point it would turn on the drive and make a whirring noise through the PC's speaker).
I believe this little ditty was called "spinrite.com". I remember it fondly. It came out before the days of ubiquitous hard-drives (so no drive C yet). Most everyone still used 5.25" floppies.
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That's not a Windows creation.
That sounds like a Microsoft programmer that used to work for IBM. Long before Microsoft existed, IBM used to initialize all of the memory on their mainframes to 0xDEADBEEF so that when you got a crash dump and you saw that in a register, you knew you had an uninitialized variable somewhere. Fun and pragmatic at the same time. Gotta love it.
BSD (4.2 and 4.3-Reno) had such fun error messages. One of my favorites:
> rm God
rm: God does not exist
Draining water from Drive A:
Drive A: on spin cycle. Please wait.
(at which point it would turn on the drive and make a whirring noise through the PC's speaker).
I believe this little ditty was called "spinrite.com". I remember it fondly. It came out before the days of ubiquitous hard-drives (so no drive C yet). Most everyone still used 5.25" floppies.