Why is Windows 95 BEAR, BUNNY and PIGLET?
If you dig out the Windows 95 system files, you can find undocumented functions with names like
They have a funny story.
Bear was a mascot of Windows 3.1. It was a teddy bear, which Dave, one of the most important programmers involved in the project, was carrying everywhere. When he came to your office, he would launch a bear into the monitor so that you would be distracted by it.
Sometimes for fun we abducted Mishka and sent him “on vacation” - just as people send “on vacation” figurines of dwarfs from lawns, and then send postcards “from vacation”.
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In addition to the names of system functions, Mishka appeared in two more places in Windows 3.1. In the font selection dialog for a DOS window, if you select a small font, you can see the nonexistent
Bear suffered a lot of bullying. Once, a power cord went through his head, from ear to ear. Another time he was shoved with a petard. By the time Windows 95, Mishka’s condition had already become disastrous, so he was dismissed from his post and replaced with a pink rabbit, which received the nickname Rabbit ( Bunny ). But the veteran Mishka did not go to the garbage: the children of one of the managers took pity on him and paid off well.
In fact, the talismans of Windows 95 were two different Rabbits: the small, “16-bit Rabbit,” and the large, “32-bit Rabbit.” Two Rabbits - means twice as much opportunity to kidnap them; and while Windows 95 was being created, the rabbits got a lot. For example, when Dave got married, we helped the 32-bit Rabbit to get into the wedding without an invitation, and then sent out photos of Rabbit where he lay in bed.
Dave was mainly a GUI, so the names
The core was Mike, and he had a teddy Disney Piglet. So when we needed to call a new function in the kernel, we called it
Piglet survived until the release of Windows 95 without a scratch.
BEAR35 , BUNNY73 and PIGLET12 . Where did those stupid names come from?They have a funny story.
Bear was a mascot of Windows 3.1. It was a teddy bear, which Dave, one of the most important programmers involved in the project, was carrying everywhere. When he came to your office, he would launch a bear into the monitor so that you would be distracted by it.
Sometimes for fun we abducted Mishka and sent him “on vacation” - just as people send “on vacation” figurines of dwarfs from lawns, and then send postcards “from vacation”.
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In addition to the names of system functions, Mishka appeared in two more places in Windows 3.1. In the font selection dialog for a DOS window, if you select a small font, you can see the nonexistent
BEAR.EXE file in the file BEAR.EXE . In a more spectacular way, Bear appears in a video clip where he “represents” the developers of Windows 3.1 - alternating with Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Brad Silverberg.
Bear suffered a lot of bullying. Once, a power cord went through his head, from ear to ear. Another time he was shoved with a petard. By the time Windows 95, Mishka’s condition had already become disastrous, so he was dismissed from his post and replaced with a pink rabbit, which received the nickname Rabbit ( Bunny ). But the veteran Mishka did not go to the garbage: the children of one of the managers took pity on him and paid off well.
In fact, the talismans of Windows 95 were two different Rabbits: the small, “16-bit Rabbit,” and the large, “32-bit Rabbit.” Two Rabbits - means twice as much opportunity to kidnap them; and while Windows 95 was being created, the rabbits got a lot. For example, when Dave got married, we helped the 32-bit Rabbit to get into the wedding without an invitation, and then sent out photos of Rabbit where he lay in bed.
Dave was mainly a GUI, so the names
BEAR and BUNNY received functions related to the user interface.The core was Mike, and he had a teddy Disney Piglet. So when we needed to call a new function in the kernel, we called it
PIGLET .Piglet survived until the release of Windows 95 without a scratch.
Note:BEARandBUNNYstill alive, at least in my Windows XP.BEARlives in\WINDOWS\system32\user.exe, andBUNNYin\WINDOWS\system32\krnl386.exe.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/102204/
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