From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <17F0935A-E348-4F87-9B69-15D50BF98A69@coraid.com> From: Brantley Coile To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 08:29:45 -0500 References: Subject: Re: [9fans] punched cards live Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e1a9734-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 As the subject says, punched cards. Except it was a '40'X on the 360. On Nov 3, 2008, at 7:06 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> This courtesy of the ACPI spec: ""RSD PTR " (Notice that this >> signature must contain a trailing >> blank character.)" >> >> So where do we get the guys who design this stuff? Can we send them >> back? Or put them in an infinite loop in a time machine (oh wait see >> the subject). > > i think it's a tradition at this point to use 0x20 and not 0x00 to > fill a fixed-with signature. ata identify device uses 0x20 to fill > out fixed-width fields like the serial number. i'd be interested > where this tradition popped up. 0 would make more sense. > > - erik > > >