Reminds me of the Read-Modify-Write procedure on a lot of PIC devices. Our teacher taught us to randomly place NOP instructions until it worked; we all thought

Reminds me of the Read-Modify-Write procedure on a lot of PIC devices. Our teacher taught us to randomly place NOP instructions until it worked; we all thought he was crazy until we realized what he was working around. (The actual solution was to write to the LATx registers instead of PORTx)