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That's not entirely fair; standards are full of hard coded values.


In fact the 7-14 table mentioned in TFAA is literally a table of magic values to hard-code: it's a big table listing all the timings of section 7 and their minimum and maximum values (either one of which may be absent)


Especially timer values.




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