branch and hang

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branch and hang - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Branch and Hang
  BRH
  
     <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)