This was assigned reading in one of my university CS courses, and although it was great fun then, as we were mostly all novice programmers learning Java of all things, the madness of the story didn't hit me until a few years later when I had done much more work with C and pointer math.

This part in particular, taken from Wikipedia, still reads to me like Necronomicon level black magic:

> But when x was already the highest possible address, not only did the address wrap around to 0, but a 1 was carried into the bits from which the opcode would be read