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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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<<Now of course doing things this blatantly would be considered cheating, but
in practice you can do things almost this outrageous in a much more
reserved and non-obvious way.
>>

By the way, some company made a video board for the PC that had a special
bit map built into the ROM that happened to be a string something like
"PC Video Font Benchmark Test" in some particular font, predecoded. 
PC Magazine was not amused when they discovered this :-)