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24 Technobabble

I was watching 24 the other day and (without giving anything away) Edgar Stiles had to "patch a system call" to save the world. After chiding his assistant for giving him the wrong opcode for a "load A, conditional" the following briefly appears on the screen.

The
system call that saved the world

It's actually a pretty good piece of technobabble. The register names and use of 0x80 suggest whoever wrote this has at least some familiarity with x86 assembly. It would have been slightly better if they called the "microshell" a "microkernel" and put the system call in eax before calling the interrupt, but if you believe Jack's amazing ability to get cell phone reception then it's only a small issue!

posted at: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:22 | in /humor | permalink | add comment (3 others)

Posted by Thomas at Fri Mar 20 14:05:27 2009

The think I like best is that, despite the incredible time pressure they're in, they still comment their code!

Think about that next time you claim you're too rushed to comment your own code!

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