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Microprocessor easter eggs aren't new.

Here are some of the existing menagerie...

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/chipshots/dec/index.html

http://simh.trailing-edge.com/dsarchive.html

And then there's the classic "VAX - When you care enough to steal the very best" that was etched (in Cyrillic) on the some of the MicroVAX chips:

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html

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From your VAX link - it was written in Cyrillic, because it was meant to be read by the inevitable Russian reverse-engineers. Russia lagged on chip design, so they stole US chip designs for their own computer industry, and told everybody they were original.

Interestingly, it's a word by word translation of the English phrase so it doesn't make any sense in Russian. I don't know if those reverse engineers would have guessed what it meant.

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