PDP-11/40 videos

Sean Conner spc at conman.org
Fri Mar 16 13:32:33 CDT 2007


It was thus said that the Great Jim Leonard once stated:
> Chuck Guzis wrote:
> >64 bit hex does give you more than octal.   We had DEADCACA, 
> >DEADFACE, etc.  Some idiot used C0CAC01A as his "magic number").
> 
> The c0cac01a one is particularly clever!

  I've used DECAFBAD as part of a user-defined MAC address (as
DECAFBAD01)---nice thing about it was---it set the correct bits in the MAC
address (single station, user defined address).

  -spc (And it certainly stood out in arp tables ... )






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