[Info-vax] fortune mod tonight

[Carl Friedberg]

No one has mentioned the infamous IBM 7090 instruction:

HCF       Halt and Catch Fire

Carl



On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Single Stage to Orbit <
alex.buell at munted.org.uk> wrote:

> Just now my ancient laptop booted up with a fortune saying:
>
> Proposed Additions to the PDP-11 instruction set:
>
> BBW     Branch Both Ways
> BEW     Branch Either Way
> BBBF    Branch on Bit Bucket Full
> BH      Branch and Hang
> BMR     Branch Multiple Registers
> BOB     Branch On Bug
> BPO     Branch on Power Off
> BST     Backspace and Stretch Type
> CDS     Consense and Destroy System
> CLBR    Clobber Register
> CLBRI   Clobber Register Immediately
> CM      Circulate Memory
> CMFRM   Come From -- essential for truly structured programming
> CPPR    Crumple Printer Paper and Rip
> CRN     Convert to Roman Numerals
>
> teehee...
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