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From: [e-mail] (Greg Lehey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: what is halt_and_catch_fire?
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Date: 19 Aug 92 17:33:37 GMT
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> <jhb.714204920@bizet>
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In article <jhb.714204920@bizet> [e-mail] (John Brownie) writes:
>In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Edward S. Hirgelt) writes:
>
>>[Discussion about _halt_and_catch_fire() in locore.o of in SunOS.]
>
>>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).
>>The list goes on. Someone must have posted these in the past?
>
>This isn't the original list, but another that I found some years ago:
> (etc)

I've just been unpacking some old books, and found one entitled
``Assemblers and BAL'' by Ivan Flores, published in 1971. Many of
these listed instructions, including HCF, are reproduced in Appendix
F, pages 406-407.
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