In computer engineering, Halt and Catch Fire, known by the assembly language mnemonic HCF, is an idiom referring to a computer machine code instruction...
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Halt and Catch Fire is an American period drama television series created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers. It aired on the cable network...
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Halt and Catch Fire may refer to: Halt and Catch Fire (computing), idiom referring to a computer machine code instruction Halt and Catch Fire (TV series)...
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HCF (section Arts and entertainment)
Hércules CF, a Spanish football team Hungarian Chess Federation Halt and Catch Fire (computing), a semi-mythical machine code mnemonic High-cycle fatigue Highest...
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Halt and Catch Fire is an American period drama television series created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers, that aired on AMC from June...
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Illegal opcode (redirect from Bop (computing))
(machine instruction sequence) Halt and Catch Fire (computing) Microcode Pentium F00F bug Synthetic programming Trap (computing) Undocumented feature "1.2...
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Various artifacts from the museum were borrowed and featured in TV shows such as Mad Men and Halt and Catch Fire. "What is Living Computer Museum?". Archived...
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Rhode Island Computer Museum (category Buildings and structures in North Kingstown, Rhode Island)
museum's collection as part of their set design: Hidden Figures Joy Halt and Catch Fire The Americans Knives Out Severance Kuffner, Alex (January 25, 2014)...
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Computer humour (category Computing-related lists)
nonsense output J. Random Hacker, an arbitrary programmer (hacker) Halt and Catch Fire (HCF), an idiom referring to a computer machine code instruction...
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Ada Lovelace (section Computing and STEM)
On Fire: Recap/Review of Halt and Catch Fire "Adventure"". What'cha Reading?. Retrieved 20 August 2023. "Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing". BBC...
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intended to induce hardware damage. (See also "Halt and Catch Fire".) Although not using the phrase "does not compute", the short story "Liar!" (1941) by Isaac...
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Morris worm (category 1988 in computing)
Egg, Stoll details his efforts battling the Morris worm. In Halt and Catch Fire, a virus that works in a similar way to the Morris worm is created to...
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Internet company depicted in the second season of the AMC drama series Halt and Catch Fire is believed to be based on PlayNet. PlayNet was originally designed...
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corrupted the BIOS Halt and Catch Fire, a less destructive operation which halts the CPU but can usually be recovered by power-cycling. "Computing Myth #1: Software...
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Episcopal Church Cameron Howe, from the television drama series Halt and Catch Fire Heather Jasper Howe, from the film, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed...
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episode of the 2014 TV series Halt and Catch Fire, a period drama taking place in the early days of the personal computing revolution. In it, the chief...
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2025 (section Predicted and scheduled events)
2025. Retrieved April 13, 2025. "At least 148 people die after boat catches fire in Congo, media reports say". NBC News. April 19, 2025. Retrieved April...
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List of films about computers (category Computing and society)
Empires (1996) Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998) Halt and Catch Fire (2014 - 2017) Commodore 64 Macintosh 128K NeXT Computer Silicon Valley...
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explosion: A Tesla Cybertruck catches on fire and explodes outside Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, killing one person and injuring seven others. Honduran...
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2024 Noto earthquake (redirect from 2024 Sea of Japan earthquake and tsunami)
機長も重いやけどで搬送 日航機も14人けがで4人搬送 羽田空港衝突事故 [[Breaking News] JAL plane catches fire; 5 of the 6 crew members of the Japan Coast Guard aircraft were found...
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Silicon Valley (category Science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area)
about working at Google Silicon Valley—2014 American sitcom from HBO Halt and Catch Fire—2014 TV series, the last two seasons are primarily set in Silicon...
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Blue Man Group (redirect from Rods and Cones (song))
end of the performance, Harris and episode co-host Shaquille O'Neal were doused in blue paint. AMC's Halt and Catch Fire (August 2017) – In this drama...
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Generative artificial intelligence (category 2020s in computing)
New Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductors to China imposed restrictions on exports to China of GPU and AI accelerator chips used for...
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playing "catch-up" to Microsoft. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told The Verge: "I want people to know that we made them dance." Tom Warren of The Verge and Davey...
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traditional literary works. In the first season of the 2014 TV show Halt and Catch Fire, a key plot point from the second episode is how the fictional Cardiff...
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includes even more extreme possibilities, including things like "halt and catch fire" and "make demons fly out of your nose".) The classic example is a dangling...
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YouTube (category 2006 mergers and acquisitions)
Universal And Warner Brothers For YouTube Movies". TechCrunch. AOL. Retrieved March 26, 2017. "Google Ad Crisis Spreads as Biggest Marketers Halt Spending"...
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NOP (code) (category Computing acronyms)
programmers that are ignored by compilers and interpreters Computer architecture Filler text Halt and Catch Fire – also pauses the CPU HLT (x86 instruction)...
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Pentium F00F bug (category 1997 in computing)
processors. The F00F instruction can be considered an example of a Halt and Catch Fire (HCF) instruction. Although a definite solution to this problem required...
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about. Much of the second and third seasons of the American TV series Halt and Catch Fire is centered around the development and troubles of the fictional...
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