Date   : Sun, 18 Feb 1996 14:46:32 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Philip Blundell <pjb27@...>
Subject: Re: Strange bug!!

On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, Tom Seddon wrote:

> I've discovered a really weird bug. It first came to light on my emulator 
> when I let someone play with it.
> 
> If you restart the emulator (ie from DOS/Windows/whatever) and type 
> OLD--you'll get a Bad Program message--followed by 10PRINT "FRED" (or 
> whatever), when you press RETURN the computer will hang! This happens on 
> my emulator, on WinBeebEm, and on James Bonfield's emulator as well (I 
> hacked it around a bit to get a dos-compatible version).

It's not an emulator bug.  Real BBCs do this too. 

Phil