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Why CAFEBABE?

843785Jan 26 2009 — edited Jan 27 2009

First 4 byte of any class file is 0xCAFEBABE number to help JVM understand that its a class file.Why java developers took this number only as a magic number...is there any specific reasons!!!
Please correct me if i m wrong any where...
Thanks

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