I don’t know. Seems like apocrypha layered on apocrypha go me

>…I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven’s sake.”

>(I can’t believe I had to write this: This is a dramatization, not a courtroom transcript.)

>This “I wrote FAT on an airplane” line was apparently one Bill used when he wanted to complain that what other people was doing wasn’t Real Programming. But this time, the development manager decided she’d had enough.

>“Fine, Bill. We’ll set you up with a machine fully enlisted in the Windows source code, and you can help us out with some of your programming magic, why don’t you.”

>This shut him up.

Kind of, but the source here is someone who has been at Microsoft a very long time. Given that he didn’t put any qualifier around this story about it possibly not being true, I think it’s more likely that it is true. If this were J Random Blogger I’d agree with you.