Re: pentium bug continued

Dale Amon as Operator (root@starbase1.gpl.net)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 12:06:47 +0000 (GMT)

This sort of thing isn't all that uncommon. The old 6800
had what we used to call the HCF opcode, "Halt and Catch
Fire". When a program got lost in hyperspace it
would inevitably hit either a Halt or this undocumented
feature, at which point the address lines became a
binary counter and the machine required a power reset
to get it back.

I wouldn't be surprised at all to find accidental or
QA opdcodes hidden away in other processors.