Posted By
gerliczer
on 2016-08-29
00:24:54
|  Re: Does exist a Halt & Catch Fire instruction on 6502/8501?
I think this Halt & Catch Fire is either a joke gone urban legend or a misunderstanding. There are military grade components, which means extended temperature range and maybe more robust mechanical construction only. I guess, someone, either for a joke or by wild guessing, started to spread this and it got everywhere. Military hardware contains so much "interesting" parts and solutions that it is not only the CPU that should be protected by catching fire at a command.
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