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
