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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] vga and ethernet
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Date: Sat,  4 Aug 2001 03:09:14 +0200
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> > I read something that stuck with me forever -- one's programs will be
> > much more readable if ambiguity over character interpratation (l vs 1
> > vs I, O vs 0 in some fonts, etc) is avoided.

slam the wrong thing into a pdp 11 kernel segment permission/mode
register and your kernel crashes.  mine did.  all due to a zero/O
problem.  at least the rl-02's didn't get smashed.