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- From: kjell@elixir.e.kth.se (Kjell Rilbe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Rapidly incrementing address lines Was: Re: what is halt_and_catch_fire?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.111604.17893@kth.se>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 11:16:04 GMT
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- In article <3140@isgtec.isgtec.com> bmw@isgtec.com (Bruce M. Walker) writes:
- >[Stuff deleted before and after]
- >It is semi-apocryphal. One undocumented opcode in the MC6800
- >instruction set caused the processor to cease fetching instructions,
- >but to increment its address lines rapidly (every one or two clocks,
- >don't remember which).
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- This is the behaviour I encountered when my reset signal didn't work
- in a MC6809 board. Seems it does that when the RESET signal is too
- short at power-up.
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- Never thought of using it to check the address decode though.....
-
- /Kjell Rilbe
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