From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] punched cards live
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 07:06:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0a47b6585a06bad428aabebbc8d5e67@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10811022301p15fcc7edj9c6a7718aad62f5c@mail.gmail.com>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-03 7:01 ron minnich
2008-11-03 12:06 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-11-03 13:29 ` Brantley Coile
2008-11-03 13:37 ` John DeGood
2008-11-03 13:59 erik quanstrom
2008-11-04 15:25 Eris Discordia
[not found] <1CF8271E0E449545D858FAB3@192.168.1.2>
2008-11-04 16:25 ` David Leimbach
2008-11-05 10:39 ` Eris Discordia
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