Flash Lights Impressively

Flash Lights Impressively

(programming, command, humour)(FLI) /FLY/ A joke assembly language instruction first documented in the late 1970s in"The Hackers Dictionary".

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."