Exit 17 — Burgers, Horses and Ships

Sal on I-405 Southbound: Lynnwood to Tukwila · Oct 29, 2026 · 2m

Sal: Between exits fourteen and seventeen. Sal: State Route 520 meets the freeway here. From 1981 to 1986, Microsoft had its headquarters nearby, in the Northup Building on Northup Way in Bellevue. Sal: Next door stood the Burgermaster drive-in. Raymond Chen, who has worked on Windows for more than thirty years, tells what came of that. In Windows 3.0, the data segment that recorded the locations of all the others was named the BurgerMaster. One story says its developer couldn't think of a name, saw the big sign out his window, and used it. Peggy: The most important piece of Windows, named…