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From: wmb@sun.UUCP (Mitch Bradley)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: uP architecture and the NOVA - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 09:09:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 15 09:09:04 1983
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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.