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From: apippin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Pinhead@Spikes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Lights on Burroughs machines
Message-ID: <25b77c7a.2b35@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 19 Jan 90 20:45:46 GMT
References: <1990Jan15.173434.5792@virtech.uucp> <729@ncs.dnd.ca> <9082@ttidca.TTI.COM>
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~In article <729@ncs.dnd.ca> jstewart@ncs.dnd.ca (John Stewart) writes:
~}... it would also display
~}    DE
~}    AD
~}if some part of the system was down!

Add then hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) babbles...
~IBM 370's and their descendants do the same thing (though they display
~DEAD).

	Can't remember what machine it was, but if it crashed...
	the console would print:

		P
		   L
		      O
			 P.......
	
	And then give the kernal debug prompt.

    aBp.

-- 
Andy Pippin  -*-  apippin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU  -*-  Conserve water, drink beir.

  "Write Only?!?  Must be talking about FORTH.  Nobody can read that."-samlb