Re: Did anybody ever use halt indicators? -- RPG400-L

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Used Halt Indicators last in the 80's in RPG II. H1-H9 for quickly testing
certain conditions. Forgot all about them until this message.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 1:14 PM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I've never seen them in the wild, and have never heard anyone talk
about them, even old-timers who reminisce about match field indicators
and share war stories about RPG II.

To me, halt indicators seem like a light-weight, bare-bones exception
mechanism.

Were they unpopular because they were TOO bare-bones? What's the story
on halt indicators?

John Y.
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