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Jul 07, 2015cheese123 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is very entertaining. Exciting. A little bit weird. 1983 a small electronics company is attempting to make an IBM clone computer. It's not a cuddly company it's full of backstabbing. And sudden disasters, suddenly averted. Suspenseful. Their definition of the term "halt and catch fire" however is wrong. It's a joke word like snafu. Early computer programmers made it up to refer to a situation where the computer gets stuck in an infinite loop and you have to restart it. HCF was made to look like one of the code commands that were 3 letters long. HCF is a way of saying " it's as if there's a command in the programming that tells the computer to stop taking commands, to become unusable and then bursts into to flames." The bursting into flames this is just hyperbole and grousing. 'Catch Fire' is how that idea is fitted into the three letter command.