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Re:AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas ... by scrlk on Thursday February 08, 2024 @09:21AM (#39302201)
The Soviets used to reverse engineer and clone DEC VAX computers. When the DEC engineers heard about this, they added a message in Russian to one of their CVAX CPUs: "VAX - when you care enough to steal the very best"

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html

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Re:AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas ... by bewaretheirs on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:15PM (#39304599)
The message was no doubt a parody of the Hallmark (greeting card company) advertising tagline of "When you care enough to send the very best".
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Re:AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas ... by xattt on Thursday February 08, 2024 @10:45AM (#39303266)
«Когда вы заботите довольно воровать настоящий лучшей»

Doesn’t parse grammatically, but close enough.

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Re:AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas ... by Throw73747 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @11:33AM (#39304007)
Soviets replicated all sort of stuff, 8bit controllers, all the way up to i386.
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Re:AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas ... by greenyoda on Thursday February 08, 2024 @07:00PM (#39309532)
They even cloned IBM mainframes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVM
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Re:AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas ... by 486sx33 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:39PM (#39310373)
Maybe you touched upon the real meaning here.. attention competitors DONT MESS WITH TEXAS (bang!)
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