Trivia:
The early Motorola 6800 MicroProcessor had undefined instructions that
you could feed to it -- instructions being binary numbers, after all. One
of those instructions would put the micro in an illegal state. It would
halt, and after 10 - 15 minutes, if left on in that state without a reset,
it would burn up. No flames. Maybe some smoke.
the instruction was nicknamed by our guys, "HCF." Halt and Catch Fire.
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> > You could get yout lp1 on flame
- i used to get a lot of those .-)
> > Other than that, Linux is not so easily flammable. However, I once bursted
> > into flames when my computer denied my existance: "You do not exist, go
> > away!"
