Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!wmb From: wmb@sun.UUCP (Mitch Bradley) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: uP architecture and the NOVA - (nf) Message-ID: <285@sun.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 09:09:04 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.285 Posted: Fri Jul 15 09:09:04 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jul-83 22:06:04 EDT References: uiucdcs.2402 Lines: 6 Another interesting "feature" of the Nova, as I recall, was related to the indirect bit in Nova addresses. It seems that if you constructed an address pointer that pointed to itself, and also had the indirect bit set, then the machine would go into an infinite loop that could only be terminated by turning off the power. Also a->b->c->....->a would accomplish the same effect.