Add preview of 1984-2019

The 2020 winners are hinted it, but the source code is not there,
nor are the hints. Someone could look into the HTML and
see what was commented out, but that is not a problem because
WHO won is known and the name of their AWARD is known already.
Moreover a number of the winners have talked about what their
entirs do, so the commented out spoiler text is not a bit problem.

One will find HTML commented out with:

    <!-- XXX remove when 2020 is ready
    2020 links here
    XXX remove when 2020 is ready -->

The "XXX remove when 2020 is ready" string is found at the
start and end comment blocks.  Again, soneone could read
what was commented out, but that is OK since most of that
information is known or can be known.  The following files
have such HTML comment blocks in them.

    ./winners.html
    ./years-spoiler.html
    ./years.html

In addition, ./all/summary.txt was modified to not
include the 2020 entries for the momemt.

The 2020 winner code AND write-ups are NOT part of this set.

p.s. The all/all.tar.bz2 does not contain the 2020 source code (yet?).
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# %W% %G% %U%
#
# 1984 makefile
#
# Copyright (c) 1984, Landon Curt Noll.
# All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit
# use is granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its
# entirety and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission
# from Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.
SHELL= /bin/sh
WINNERS= mullender
all: ${WINNERS}
mullender: mullender.c
cc $? -o $@
clean:
rm -f core
clobber: clean
rm -f ${WINNERS}
install: all
@echo are you kidding'??'
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<h1>The Grand Prize</h1>
<p>Sjoerd Mullender</p>
<p>Robbert van Renesse</p>
<h2>Judges' comments:</h2>
<p>Without question, this C program is the most obfuscated C program that
has ever been received! Like all great contest entries, they result
in a change of rules for the following year. To prevent a flood of
similar programs, we requested that programs be non machine specific.</p>
<p>This program was selected for the 1987 t-shirt collection.</p>
<blockquote><p>NOTE: If your machine is not a Vax-11 or pdp-11, this program will
not execute correctly. In later years, machine dependent
code was discouraged.</p></blockquote>
<p>The C startup routine (via crt0.o) transfers control to a location
named main. In this case, main just happens to be in the data area.
The array of shorts, which has been further obfuscated by use of
different data types, just happens to form a meaningful set of PDP-11
and Vax instructions. The first word is a PDP-11 branch instruction
that branches to the rest of the PDP code. On the Vax main is called with
the calls instruction which uses the first word of the subroutine as a
mask of registers to be saved. So on the Vax the first word can be anything.
The real Vax code starts with the second word. This small program
makes direct calls to the write() Unix system call to produce a
message on the screen. Can you guess what is printed? We knew you
couldn&rsquo;t! :-)</p>
<p>Copyright &copy; 1984, Landon Curt Noll.
All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is
granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety
and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing
from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.</p>
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# The Grand Prize
Sjoerd Mullender
Robbert van Renesse
## Judges' comments:
Without question, this C program is the most obfuscated C program that
has ever been received! Like all great contest entries, they result
in a change of rules for the following year. To prevent a flood of
similar programs, we requested that programs be non machine specific.
This program was selected for the 1987 t-shirt collection.
> NOTE: If your machine is not a Vax-11 or pdp-11, this program will
> not execute correctly. In later years, machine dependent
> code was discouraged.
The C startup routine (via crt0.o) transfers control to a location
named main. In this case, main just happens to be in the data area.
The array of shorts, which has been further obfuscated by use of
different data types, just happens to form a meaningful set of PDP-11
and Vax instructions. The first word is a PDP-11 branch instruction
that branches to the rest of the PDP code. On the Vax main is called with
the calls instruction which uses the first word of the subroutine as a
mask of registers to be saved. So on the Vax the first word can be anything.
The real Vax code starts with the second word. This small program
makes direct calls to the write() Unix system call to produce a
message on the screen. Can you guess what is printed? We knew you
couldn't! :-)
Copyright (c) 1984, Landon Curt Noll.
All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is
granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety
and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing
from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.
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4407, 6, 5568, 1, -30460, 0, 0x9, 5570, 512, -30419,
0x7e82, 0760, 6, 0, 4, 02400, 15, 0, 4, 1280, 4, 0,
4, 0, 0, 0, 0x8, 0, 4, 0, ',', 0, 12, 0, 4, 0, '#',
0, 020, 0, 4, 0, 30, 0, 026, 0, 0x6176, 120, 25712,
'p', 072163, 'r', 29303, 29801, 'e'
};