Re: Worst Error Messages of all Time

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From: jo... Jon Brawn
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 13:00

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je...@nmt.edu (Jeff Putnam) writes:
>General_Make_Vector(0x3f1, 0x6000000, 0x0, 0xdeadbeef, 0xdeadbeef, 0xdeadbeef, 0xdeadbeef, 0x100) at 0x10011468

I usually write this constant down as 0x0deadbeef in the source
(OXO is a brandname of a stockcube in England)

>Tell me thats a coincidence! 
No, its a magic number! This one appears in Unix System Five as part of the
Alternate disk sector mapping sanity check. Also present is
0xdeadfeeb as the volume label magic number.
-- 
Here I speak neither for Specialix, nor myself. What you see is all you get.
Jon Brawn, jo...@specialix.co.uk  (or for you bangers: ..!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!jonb)
  ``Once upon a time, not so very long ago, on a network not so very far away''

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From: jo...@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn)
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Subject: Re: Worst Error Messages of all Time
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