Amusingly, I had a third interpretation, which is "busted" as being too strong. I realized that when the author started talking about the Amiga though that's probably not what they meant (as busted is a fairly modern gaming term, I'd be surprised to see someone as old as to be familiar with Amiga to use it. Sorry to anyone that feels personally attacked by this description :P)
Is broken not cool enough anymore?
I’ve heard broken and cracked used in this way, usually in a game-mechanics balance context implying something is overpowered, but busted in that same context has a negative connotation to me for some reason, signifying something being underpowered or bugged, if that makes sense. I can’t even tell if this is ironic or unironic at this point.
My understanding of the "busted" please was that he'd caught the Intel folks being Amiga fans. Guess something was lost in translation to English from the author's native French.
Yeah I mean the thing though is that it's just kind of the obvious way to do this instruction. So two different groups doing it the same way isn't really any evidence of copying.