wrote:
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:12:51 -0800, Jim Stewart
wrote:


Jim McGill wrote:

First version of that list I saw was back in the '60's for an IBM 7094
(any other geezers remember that beast - filled the room with less power
than a modern hand held calculator). It had a couple classics that you
missed:

BAH - Branch And Hang
XPI - eXecute Programmer Immediately

Mac


That's the one I remember. And my favorite was:

HCF - Halt and Catch Fire



You got it wrong. It's

HMC -- Halt, Melt and Catch Fire

I don't think so:

http://dictionary.reference.com/sear...20catch%20fire

I suspect HMC was a microcoded variation
on HMC (:




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