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From: jfh@killer.UUCP (John Haugh)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now [ is an exploding computer ]
Message-ID: <910@killer.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 11:35:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.910
Posted: Wed May 20 11:35:17 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 24-May-87 03:34:10 EDT
References: <12067@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Organization: The Unix(tm) Connection, Dallas, Texas
Lines: 18
Keywords: Originally from a friend
Summary: Didn't the 6800 have a way to do this?
Xref: mnetor talk.bizarre:1860 comp.misc:574

In article <12067@topaz.rutgers.edu>, trudel@topaz.rutgers.edu (Jonathan D.) writes:
> 
>                                                      Forget artificial
> intelligence!  Forget relational databases!  Forget distributed network
> architecture proposal interface protocols!  Forget documentation!  Forget
> associative memory!  Let's make computers explode in our lifetime!!!

A friend of mine who work at TANO in New Orleans told me (remember now, I'm
the guy with the problem about cows ... :-) ) that one of the unused op-codes
in the M6800 had the nasty side effect of overloading the bus and causing
much grief on the PC board the chip was mounted on.  The idea was that this
illegal instruction repeatedly fetched from the bus at a rate that was more
than what the bus could handle, and poof! instant meltdown.

You don't really expect me to believe that this actually happened now do you?
Anybody out there heard of anything like this really happening?

- John.		(Freddy the Freeloader in Decadent Dallas)