[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <nde479-2t.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch>
writes: 

> > In case you missed it, the phrase "When you care enough to steal the
> > very best" has significance.
> > 
> > In the old days, the VAX was one of the favorite computers of the
> > Soviets. VAXen were export-restricted, so the Soviets reverse-engineered
> > them and made their own.  DEC engineers knew this, so on one of the
> > Microvax chips, they had added the phrase "When you care enough to steal
> > the very best", in Russian, on the silicon, a little Easter egg for the
> > Soviets to find.
> > 
> > Perhaps someone can fill in details, such as which VAX chip it was.
> 
> Here's a picture:
> 
> http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html

Maybe it's time to update the phrase: first, write it in Chinese instead 
of Russian; second, make it "for those who are rich enough to buy the 
very best".  :-|