[Info-vax] fortune mod tonight

[Simon Clubley]

On 2011-10-15, Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout-remove at this-gmail.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley mentioned  on 15-10-2011 10:55:
>> On 2011-10-15, Carl Friedberg<frida.fried at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> No one has mentioned the infamous IBM 7090 instruction:
>>>
>>> HCF       Halt and Catch Fire
>>>
>>
>> If we are listing real instructions, there's always PowerPC's EIEIO
>> instruction. :-)
>>
>> Simon.
>
> Executed only if the operator is old McDonald, on a farm?

That's exactly where it came from, according to multiple versions of
the story I've heard over the years. :-)

Simon.

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