('big boobs') was required by Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor to be used by Linux guests as their 'guest signature'. ('BIOS food') is the value of the low bytes of last four registers on ARM PrimeCell compatible components (the component_id registers), used to identify correct behaviour of a memory-mapped component. ('a bad babe') was/is used by Microsoft's Windows 7 to trigger a debugger break-point, probably when a USB device is attached ('ice buddha') was used as the origin for the binary file parser IceBuddha. ('1 bad boot' ) Multiboot header magic number. ('ate bad food') is used by Apple in iOS crash reports, when an application takes too long to launch, terminate, or respond to system events. ('über (ooba) block') is used as the magic number for the ZFS uberblock. ('office') is used as the last part of product codes (GUID) for Microsoft Office components (visible in registry under HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall registry key). Many computer processors, operating systems, and debuggers make use of magic numbers, especially as a magic debug value.
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