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From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: ***READ THIS***: HP-48 fatal bug in VISIT
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Date: 28 Jun 91 12:37:26 GMT
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In article <16710@life.ai.mit.edu> bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson) writes:
>   The following crashes my Rev D HP-48, wiping out the memory, almost
>every time I try it.
[description of procedure omitted]
>I'm interested in knowing whether others can reproduce this.

I just tried this on my Rev E machine, and, while it didn't crash my
machine, it did seem to go through a system halt: it showed the GATEWAY-48
signon screen for a moment, then returned to the stack display, with USER
mode reset and displaying the MTH menu.

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