Idon't believe that was an actual command (not intentionally at least), but just a description of what sometimes happened (hopefully not the catch fire part, but you never know)...
L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : I seem to remember that you liked "Silicon Valley," which I found too silly to bother with. Here's another one for your perusal. Check out "Halt and Catch Fire," the new AMC series starring Lee Pace (from "Pushing Daisies"). The IMDB description is "Set in the early 1980s, series dramatizes the personal computing boom through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the changing culture in Texas' Silicon Prairie." The first few words, displayed on the screen at the beginning of the series, are: HALT AND CATCH FIRE (HCF): An early computer command that sent the machine into a race condition, forcing all instructions to compete for superiority at once. Control of the computer could not be regained. The first episode is actually pretty interesting, and for a show about nerds, it's pretty fuckin' dynamic. Great babe, too, in newcomer Mackenzie Davis.
