The page you linked introduces another "suspect" to the "cafe babe" mistery: > ("cafe babe") is used by Plan 9's libc as a poison value for memory pools. Both

The page you linked introduces another "suspect" to the "cafe babe" mistery: > ("cafe babe") is used by Plan 9's libc as a poison value for memory pools. Both the NeXT computer and Plan 9 were developed in the mid 80s, so I wonder who used it first? But I don't think that one influenced the other?