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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon,  3 Nov 2008 07:06:19 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] punched cards live
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> 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