I had remembered the HCF as being a z-80 thing, so I
searched for it.
All I can find says it was 6800, not 6502.
The NMOS 6502 has a number of undocumented lock-up opcodes. However, they arise
as a consequence of its instruction decoder PLA and weren't intended for
testing like the 6800 HCF. They were eliminated in the 65C02, though later
versions add the STP opcode as an intentional way to halt the CPU until reset.
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