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# "Bill Gates" Award:
Chris Mills
Pagine Corporation
1961-A Concourse Drive
San Jose, CA 95131
USA
Chris Mills
Pagine Corporation
1961-A Concourse Drive
San Jose, CA 95131
USA
## To build:
make all
```sh
make all
```
NOTE: this entry requires `X11/Xlib.h` header file and the X11 library to
compile. macOS users running Mountain Lion and later will need to download and
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## To run:
DISPLAY="your_X_server_display"
export DISPLAY
./cmills [speed] # must be run on an X11 server
```sh
DISPLAY="your_X_server_display"
export DISPLAY
./cmills [speed] # must be run on an X11 server
```
where:
where:
speed update speed from 1 to 9 (default is 9)
`speed` is update speed from 1 to 9 (default is 9).
## Judges' comments:
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trounce East in computer quiz game"):
"Since 1984, a contest has been held on Usenet for the most
unreadable, creative, bizarre but working C program", Gates
said. "What is the name of this contest?"
"Windows," shot back Gassee, naming Microsoft's premier product
- a product over which Apple sued Microsoft five years ago. Not
the right answer - it's "The Obfuscated C Contest [sic]" - but
it brought down the house of Apple partisans...
> "Since 1984, a contest has been held on Usenet for the most
> unreadable, creative, bizarre but working C program", Gates
> said. "What is the name of this contest?"
>
> "Windows," shot back Gassee, naming Microsoft's premier product
> - a product over which Apple sued Microsoft five years ago. Not
> the right answer - it's "The Obfuscated C Contest [sic]" - but
> it brought down the house of Apple partisans...
[The expression on Bill Gates' face was a sight to behold, as reported
to us by several who were there].
You must set $DISPLAY in your environment or the program will
You must set `$DISPLAY` in your environment or the program will
dump core. This is not a bug as the author documented it as
a feature. :-)