The “MZ” header in EXE files

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:01:12 +0000

When you open an executable in notepad, you might have noticed that every executable starts with the letters MZ

These story behind these two letters is that these are the initials of Mark Zbikowski the designer of the DOS executable file format. These two letters are basically telling the system that this is an executable file.

It must be a funny idea when going to sleep and knowing that your initials are spread on billions of systems.

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The “MZ” header in EXE files