From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihps3!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!CSvax:cak
Newsgroups: net.trivia
Title: Why 407?
Article-I.D.: purdue.447
Posted: Sat Nov 13 11:15:24 1982
Received: Mon Nov 15 07:05:20 1982

I do! I do! It was a number of years before I understood it...
actually, I was teaching a course in pdp-11 assembler, and realized
that "407" is 	

	jmp .+7

which just gets you over the 8-byte header into the code. Great for
standalone objects.

Cheers,
chris