31 Oct
2024
31 Oct
'24
8:41 a.m.
On 10/31/24 07:35, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
If I remember right I was told back in the early 70s
by our IBM CE that physical damage could be done to our model 30 or 40 if we ran a program
that did an Assembler instruction, B * For those non-Assembler people that is an
instruction to branch to the location of the instruction. I think it might have caused a
heat problem in the core or CCROS or TROS.
Possible? Or is my 76 year old brain hallucinating?
I recall that sort of thing was an issue in the CDC 7600; it could throw
parity errors because of core heating. I believe that the problem was
in the PPUs, but it's been too many years to remember accurately.
--Chuck