Flash Lights Impressively
Flash Lights Impressively
(programming, command, humour)The FLI instruction was frequently referred to by engineerswhen minicomputers such as the DEC PDP-8, PDP-11 andsome early microcomputers such as the IMSAI and Altairhad dozens of front panel lights.
"When the computer is about to do some long I/O operation,stick in a FLI so the accountants won't think the machine hashung again."