Geek Trivia: A dinosaur (Easter) egg

“…when IBM threw its immense weight into the home-computing ring with the debut of the first IBM Personal Computer, Big Blue also introduced the Purple Book—beginning a kind of open source movement arguably more influential than even the later arrival of Linux.

Never heard of the Purple Book? Perhaps you know it better by a more formal name: the IBM PC Technical Reference Manual….

…the Purple Book didn’t necessarily tell users (and clone-makers) everything. In fact, none of the documentation for the first IBM PC listed one particularly world-famous command, and its subsequent discovery and popularity have led some to characterize it as the first PC “Easter egg.”

WHAT WORLD-FAMOUS COMMAND DID THE FIRST IBM PC MANUAL OMIT?”

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