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- Subject: Re: what is halt_and_catch_fire?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.100441.25105@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig)
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:04:41 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.181623.16695@exlog.com> <1992Aug17.132819.29817@zoo.bt.co.uk> <ESH.92Aug18152818@boron.tekbspa.com> <jhb.714204920@bizet>
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- jhb@maths.su.oz.au (John Brownie) writes:
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- >In <ESH.92Aug18152818@boron.tekbspa.com> esh@boron.tekbspa.com (Edward S. Hirgelt) writes:
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- >>[Discussion about _halt_and_catch_fire() in locore.o of in SunOS.]
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- >>The probably reference is to a series of IBM 360 instruction mnemonics
- >>that circulated many a year ago. I saw them in my IBM Assembly language
- >>class in school about 1970 (yes, we used punched cards).
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- >>I've forgotten the mnemonics, but I remember some of the instructions:
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- >> Halt and Catch Fire
- >> Convert to Roman Numerals
- >> Seek and Scar Disk
- >> Backspace and stretch tape
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- >>The list goes on. Someone must have posted these in the past?
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- >This isn't the original list, but another that I found some years ago:
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- There is quite a large list of these assembler commands in /pub/Humor on
- ftp.uni-kl.de [131.246.9.95]. Some other neat stuff in there as well, as I
- recall, such as the IBM4391.
- --
- Thomas Koenig, ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, ib09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
- The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
- diagram.
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