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Vanity License Plates

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Mike Hall blogs about vanity license plates around Redmond.
I’ve already mentioned Bruce Oberg’s “OTTFFSS” (One Two Three...). Tom
Saxton, another former Mac Word developer, still has a vanity plate that reads “FE06,”
which is a single-instruction infinite loop in MC68K machine language.
Unfortunately, the equivalent PowerPC instruction requires 8 letters.

I had once considered getting
a license plate that read “EFUN,”but it involves such an obscure bit of Hungarian Notation that even the vast
majority of Microsoft developers wouldn’t get the joke. The “e” prefix stands
for “element in the domain of” whatever follows the prefix—in this case,
element in the domain of fun. Arguably, any cool toy is an EFUN.

But, to date, the best vanity license plate I’ve ever seen, by far, was on a VW beetle. It read, “FEATURE.”

 

Rick

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 16, 2004
    Around the VS buildings, I've seen "RUNTIME", "HTTPDEV" and "VCROCKS". I've also seen "MSN 808" which probably isn't intentional, but I like to think of it as a vehicular homage to Microsoft Bob...
  • Anonymous
    April 16, 2004
    My 1988 Porsche 911 has a license plate that reads 038F. Why?
  • Anonymous
    April 16, 2004
    038f hexadecimal equals 911 decimal
  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2004
    Does Gates have WINDOWS ?
  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2004
    Tom Saxton's license is actually 60FE, and this is indeed an infinite loop in the 68K instruction set. The funny part is that his wife, Cathy, has the equivalent instruction for the 80x86 instruction set (EBFE, i believe). He was a long time Mac Word guy while she was a long time Win Word gal. But love knows no such distinctions :).
  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2004
    Hm... I could have sworn that Tom's plate was FE06. Perhaps I've spent too much time looking at byte-swapped data...

    Forgot about Cathy's plate, but, that's correct. The Mac vs Win dev connection made it funnier still.
  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2004
    Catching up on everyone's blog and couldn't help chiming in on this one. My Florida 2000 New Beetle tag is Y2KBUG
    Regards,
    gsb
  • Anonymous
    May 31, 2004
    I had this oakte issued as I was a finishing my 27 years with the deparment. Who coulf know that it would take up a new neaning. Imgoing back to my 666 license plate.
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    December 28, 2006
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