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Re:Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear? by pavedwalden on Saturday September 26, 2015 @02:20PM (#10283925)
I'm not sure which Zones Of Thought book it was (probably Deepness in the Sky), but my favorite software joke in SciFi is when someone deep-diving into the system discovers that at the deepest layers timekeeping is still calculated from the UNIX epoch on the long lost human homeworld.
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Re:Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear? by acheron on Saturday September 26, 2015 @03:56PM (#10284224)
Reminds me of this: http://abstrusegoose.com/323
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