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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <3091@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 14 Feb 89 23:03:09 GMT
References: <2877@mhres.mh.nl>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <2877@mhres.mh.nl>, jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
> 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 ...

On our Xenix box, at least, the disk blocks get initialised by the
format program to DEADDEADDEADDEADDEADDEAD...
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