Halt and Catch Fire Instruction

  • Back in the day there were two interesting bugs...

    Bug 1 was the Intel F00F instruction which caused the processor to immediately halt.

    Bug 2 is that it was possible to create monitor settings which would cause a CRT monitor to catch fire.

    So... just for grins... set the monitor to "catch fire" setting and then execute F00F.

    A real and practical "halt and catch fire".