[OT] sw killing hw [was Re: [ILUG] MySQL & outer joins...]

[Gary McCloskey]

Methinks one of the PDP series could kill itself (melt the cpu) by rapidly
switching the contents of a particular series of registers.

-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Kenn
Humborg

Oh dear...  Back to 'crappy software can damage your hardware'.
Was is the C64 or the BBC Micro that could produce smoke with
just the wrong sequence of instructins?

Later,
Kenn