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Assembly Instruction: Halt and Catch Fire (HCF)
- daly 2y agoThis was a real thing actually. The Pentium had a FOOF instruction that immediately halted the processor until reboot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug) There were stories of overclocking certain brands of CRTs which would catch fire. So the game was to write a program that set the CRT to overclock and then execute FOOF. The result was that the CPU hard-stopped and the CRT caught fire. Fun times.