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How widely was 0xDEADBEEF used as a placeholder, invalid value?

HETE 2 used DEADBEEF as padding in the downlink, together with BABECAFE as packet sync.
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How widely was 0xDEADBEEF used as a placeholder, invalid value?

I've been working on IBM CICS transaction system and VSE operating system in the middle '80s and in the system dumps (I can't really remember if VSE's or CICS's) programmers put what they called "...
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Does the video game Control (2019) depict a real computer system? What is it?

The question has already been answered, but as the color scheme topic came up in the contents, I'd like to add some pictures from the technikum29 museum, with all three color schemes (orange, green, ...
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