[Info-vax] fortune mod tonight

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Mon Oct 17 17:15:38 EDT 2011


On 10/17/2011 12:38 AM, cornelius at lps.mayo.edu wrote:
> 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


Datamation published a long list of proposed Opcodes.  I may still
have a copy somewhere.



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