Dead Beef?

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From: Wolfgang Formann
Subject: More jokes
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 20:30:42 +0100
This was true with the ancient IBM 6150/6151!

When you looked at the registers of the CPU with their debugger, all uninitialized registers had the hexcode 0xdeadbeef!

I do not know if this is still true with Power-PC, but I did laugh much that time (somewhen in the late 80's).

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