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It’s not like these instruction were ‘secret instructions’ reserved for use by a secret cabal. They’re just leftovers from ‘don’t care’ parts of the microcode. I remember there’s quite a few that simply hang the processor because their microcode doesn’t include the ‘increase the program counter’ instruction so it turns into an infinite loop.


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