Spürm sounds too much like it should be an Ikea coffee table :-)

I think you've got Ikea on the brain, Rob.

Anyway, it was always called snakes, ever since it was the first thing of any interest ever to run on the display of an empeg from userspace[1][2]. It's one of only two graphical visuals that were actually written by me in C++ rather than Toby in assembler.

[1] I had to add the "from userspace" since the first thing of any interest was actually one of Toby's visuals hacked into the kernel. He always beats me to it!

[2] Well, I needed something to test the display driver with... :)

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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)