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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>green lightning</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="green-card.html" title="green card"/><link rel="next" href="green-machine.html" title="green machine"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">green lightning</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="green-card.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="green-machine.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="green-lightning"/><dt xmlns="" id="green-lightning"><b>green lightning</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IBM] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9
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terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded. This hardware bug
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was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would
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let the user know that ‘something is happening’. That, it
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certainly does. Later microprocessor-driven IBM color graphics displays
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were actually <span class="emphasis"><em>programmed</em></span> to produce green lightning!
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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [proposed] Any bug perverted into an alleged feature by adroit
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rationalization or marketing. “<span class="quote">Motorola calls the CISC cruft in the
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88000 architecture ‘compatibility logic’, but I call it green
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lightning</span>”. See also <a href="../F/feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a> (sense
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