ccc (11/16/82)
Regarding the HCF (Halt and Catch Fire) instruction...
The way I heard about this was that it was an instruction on the Motorola
6800 (only two zeros) that disabled processing and turned the address
lines into a 16-bit counter. It seems that it was used in testing.
Clayton Elwell
{usenet}!decvax!cwruecmp!ccc