From: | Peter Gordon |
Date: | 30 Jun 2001 at 14:35:54 |
Subject: | Re: Dongles |
Hi , on the subject of [amigactive] Re: Dongles, you said:
> after that would consider it not worth further effort. One method
> of 'punishment' we considered was a command said to overheat & burn
> out the processor chip, but we decided that this might cause us to
> be sued for damages. Also we were not keen on testing that this
> worked :-)
The illegal instructions nicknamed "HCF" for "Halt and Catch Fire" on the 6502
& 6510 processors do nothing more than completely lock the processor so that
the only method of restarting it is to turn the power off and on again, after
which the processor is fine. HCF is just a joke term :)
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