MZ isn't a magic number, it's a tribute to Mark Zbikowski, who was one of the lead developers of MS-DOS @Microsoft. The MZ header marks the beginning of DOS executables & later became part of the PE (Portable Executable) format used by Windows.
I played with MZ by Norton, guess!
Wow, not many people dig into this stuff anymore. Mostly Russians :-)
Here are a few awesome books from back in the day. Probably you have them, but worth jotting down.
hey i was learning about static and global all those thing there i came cross stuffs like pe and some other file also for storing stings at runtime for compiler.