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AMC Previews PC Industry Drama ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ on Yahoo’s Tumblr
- stox 12y agoDid any Intel processors have HCF? I thought that was a Motorola thing.
- ratboy666 12y agoJust watched it. It trys. But, for the record, IBM published the BIOS source for the PC. Along with schematics. Reverse engineering by reading out 65536 16 bit words? I guess, if you wanted to capture Microsoft ROM BASIC. Um.. HCF was always a mythical instruction. Try http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~bcd/humor/instruction.set.html http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~bcd/humor/instruction.set... for bunch more.
- rbanffy 12y ago> HCF was always a mythical instruction. Try http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~bcd/humor/instruction.set.. http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~bcd/humor/instruction.set.... for bunch more. The 65c02 had, in fact, a BRA instruction. It was equivalent to BNR and was called "BRanch Always".
- untog 12y agoSo, er, is it a good drama? All the feedback so far has been nit-picking the tech, which I don't really care about.
- _pius 12y agoThe first episode was very entertaining and whetted my appetite for the rest of the season. Also, despite the issues raised here, it achieved a reasonably high degree of verisimilitude.
- rasz_pl 12y agoWhat you really want to watch is this documentary: THE COMPAQ STORY - 1984 to 1988 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qI5kAjh4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qI5kAjh4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLSXaU1Isls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLSXaU1Isls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw2rEYdI2To https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw2rEYdI2To