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- From: tomlin@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Mark Tomlinson)
- Subject: Re: Some autoconfig questions
- Message-ID: <Bx9n5B.J01@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
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- Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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- References: <36731@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:12:47 GMT
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- Dave Haynie (daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com) wrote:
- : In article <1992Nov4.015332.16124@ida.liu.se> ricwe@ida.liu.se (Rickard Westman) writes:
- :
- : >b) Since I am building this board for my own use only, the product and
- : > manufacturer number are quite unnecessary. I have heard, however, that
- : > certain numbers (such as 0) wouldn't work. Is there any set of numbers
- : > that are guaranteed not to be used in "real" products, so that I could
- : > avoid possible (but unlikely) collisions?
- :
- : There's a "hacker id" reserved for such things, $2011.
- :
- : Dave Haynie / Commodore Technology, High-End Amiga Systems Design (cool stuff)
-
- Oops!! A mistake from Dave Haynie - what's happening! The hacker id is 2011
- decimal, or $7DB. Does this mean that DH has been working too hard on the
- A5000...
-
- Cheers... Mark
-