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From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <2877@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: 13 Feb 89 18:30:52 GMT
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From article <1051@vsi.COM>, by friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl):
> 
> #define FATAL 0xFEEDBEEFL   /* fatal error, reset system */

Burroughs B6700 mainframes set uninitialized memory to hexadecimal
"BADBADBADBAD" (it's a 48-bit machine). When you found this value in
your variables (or more likely: in your program dump) you knew
what you did wrong ...

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