Re: Did anybody ever use halt indicators?

[Fred Horvat <horvat@xxxxxxxx>]

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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