[Info-vax] fortune mod tonight

[cornelius at lps.mayo.edu]

Carl Friedberg <frida.fried at gmail.com> wrote:
> No one has mentioned the infamous IBM 7090 instruction:
> 
> HCF       Halt and Catch Fire

I have an unsent response which included it, but I mentioned it
as an X86 issue  [I think there may have been an Intel bug
which people applied that moniker to].

So what were the consequences on the 7090?

George