Alternative term for blinkenlights

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2 total messages Started by dnw... Dan N Wiebe Wed, 18 Apr 1990 19:00

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Author: dnw... Dan N Wiebe
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 1990 19:00

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	If blinkenlights commonly show activity in a processor or set of
processors, would it be more accurate to call them *thinken*lights?

Dan Wiebe

Re: Alternative term for blinkenlights

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Author: tbra... Byron Rakitzis
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 1990 21:22

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In article <900418190...@pansy.cis.ohio-state.edu> dnw...@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Dan N Wiebe) writes:
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>	If blinkenlights commonly show activity in a processor or set of
>processors, would it be more accurate to call them *thinken*lights?
>
>Dan Wiebe

Shouldn't these be called "Gedankenlights" then??? 

I guess this isn't funny unless you've spent too much time on
quantum-mechanical paradoxes. Remember:

Quantum mechanics: the dreams stuff is made of.

-- 
Just try taking your VAX down to Jiffy-Lube these days!

Byron "Bo knows parallel computational geometry" Rakitzis. 
				(tbra...@phoenix.Princeton.EDU)

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