Re: [ProgSoc] Made in Taiwan

[Greg Kopff <gkopff@nospam.powersource.com.au>]

Hi.

>
>We both have an Ethernet address of "A5A5A5A5A5A5". He swears blind his
>was a normal looking address a few minutes earlier =)
>

I can't explain exactly what has happened, but the repeating pattern A5 is
a dead giveaway that a diagnostic has stomped on that chunk of memory.  'A'
being 1010, and '5' being 0101, are often used by memory diagnostics
because they have alternating ones and zeroes.



 Greg Kopff
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