[A83] Re: Warming up

[A83] Re: Warming up

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• Subject: [A83] Re: Warming up
• From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
• Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 19:12:43 -0700
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You're probably thinking of the MC6800, with the Halt and Catch Fire (HCF)
opcode:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/HCF.html

> On an early microprocessor (I think it might be the 6502 but I'm not
sure),
> there was an undocumented instruction that caused the microprocessor to do
> nothing but toggle all its address lines as fast as possible. In certain
> cases this would heat up the peripheral chips enough that the circuit
board
> would catch fire.
>
> It's very easy to heat up the CPU more than a normal program, however you
> won't be able through software to heat it up any *noticeable* amount...

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• From: Patai Gergely <patai.ti@freemail.hu>
• [A83] Re: Warming up
• From: "Michael Vincent" <hookman@worldnet.att.net>

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