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fredoralive06/16/20251 replyview on HN

Interestingly, the original Mac had a similar MonkeyLives flag: https://folklore.org/Monkey_Lives.html


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ROllerozxa06/16/2025

I assume that's the "The Monkey" testing tool for the original Mac that's mentioned in the footnotes in the Androids book. Supposedly goes back to the infinite monkey theorem that makes monkeys act as a metaphor for randomness, and it was also mentioned that one of the developers of Android had used the same kind of monkey testing for WebTV and Palm OS.