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Reminds me of a little quip in a 68000 programming language book I read a long time ago. Paraphrasing: "Upon executing HALT, the processor will stop, and nothi
by kstenerud 2y ago
Reminds me of a little quip in a 68000 programming language book I read a long time ago.
Paraphrasing: "Upon executing HALT, the processor will stop, and nothing short of a reset will get it going again. Although threatening it with a hammer has been known to work on occasion, especially if it knows you've killed before."
- HobbitJack 2y agoReading the Wikipedia page on Halt and Catch Fire it seems this issue actually caused a certain set of illegal opcodes to become an "official' HCF instruction (opcode was DD so it was also known as "Drop Dead") as it was also later used by the engineers for product testing or something.
- ChuckMcM 2y agoAnd there will always be a customer that writes to support asking what size hammer should be used to test that parameter.
- Stratoscope 2y agoWhy, a rowhammer, of course!