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Halt and Catch Fire'' is an American
period drama
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television series created by
Christopher Cantwell
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and
Christopher C. Rogers, that aired on
AMC
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from June 1, 2014, to October 14, 2017. The series depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the
personal computer revolution of the 1980s and later the
growth of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. The series' first two seasons are set in the
Silicon Prairie of Dallas–Fort Worth, while the third and fourth seasons are set in
Silicon Valley
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.
The show's title refers to computer
assembly language
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instruction
HCF, whose execution would cause the computer's
central processing unit
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to stop working (and
facetiously
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catch fire).
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2014)
;Notes
Season 2 (2015)
Season 3 (2016)
Season 4 (2017)
References
External links
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Lists of American drama television series episodes