BRANCH AND HANG


Meaning of BRANCH AND HANG in English

< humour > (BRH) Originally a mythical instruction for the IBM 1130 at Indiana University .

Later some real examples were discovered. The Texas Instruments TI-980 allowed all addressing modes with all instructions, including Store Immediate Extended (stores the value into the extension word of the instruction) and Branch and Link Immediate (makes a subroutine call to the same instruction -- Branch and Hang).

Compare HCF .

(1997-02-12)

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