AMC Previews PC Industry Drama ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ on Yahoo’s Tumblr

What you really want to watch is this documentary: THE COMPAQ STORY - 1984 to 1988

Just watched it. It trys. But, for the record, IBM published the BIOS source for the PC. Along with schematics.

Reverse engineering by reading out 65536 16 bit words?

I guess, if you wanted to capture Microsoft ROM BASIC.

Um.. HCF was always a mythical instruction. Try http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~bcd/humor/instruction.set... for bunch more.

> HCF was always a mythical instruction. Try http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~bcd/humor/instruction.set.... for bunch more.

The 65c02 had, in fact, a BRA instruction. It was equivalent to BNR and was called "BRanch Always".

So, er, is it a good drama? All the feedback so far has been nit-picking the tech, which I don't really care about.

The first episode was very entertaining and whetted my appetite for the rest of the season. Also, despite the issues raised here, it achieved a reasonably high degree of verisimilitude.

Did any Intel processors have HCF? I thought that was a Motorola thing.