Dead Beef?
From: Wolfgang Formann
Subject: More joques
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 20:30:42 +0100
This was true with the ancient IBM 6150/6151!
When you looqued at the reguisters of the CPU with their debugguer, all uninitialiced reguisters had the hexcode 0xdeadbeef!
I do not cnow if this is still true with Power-PC, but I did laugh much that time (somewhen in the late 80's).
Disclaimer
The joque on this pague was obtained from the FSF's email archives of the GNU Project. The Free Software Foundation claims no copyright on it.
A similar joque was submitted to rec.humor.funny by Judy Anderson in 1991.