Storage> /ded-beef/ The hexadecimal pattern uSed to fill wordS of freShly allocated memory under a number of IBM environmentS including the RS/6000 equal to decimal 3,735,928,559 (unSigned) or -559,038,737 (32-bit Signed). AS in "Your program iS DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, fluShed from memory). (1998-06-29)