Reminds me of a lab in college where we were doing MIPS assembler. This particular lab involved output to the console using trap handlers (basically a glorified

Reminds me of a lab in college where we were doing MIPS assembler. This particular lab involved output to the console using trap handlers (basically a glorified hello world). I was the only one in the lab to get it to work at the time, and I could explain how. I had a random assignment of a strange hex number to, I think, a register (it may have been a memory location) preceded by a comment to the effect of: "Do not touch this. I'm drunk. I don't know why this works or how, but it does. Sober you will not understand." And, true enough, I didn't. And this was before google was a thing, so I'm still not sure how/where I found that magic number to make things work.