(Somewhat) funny story: My wife used to work at TMC and said that initally the blinken lights actually indicated the utilization of each CPU but programmers spe

(Somewhat) funny story: My wife used to work at TMC and said that initally the blinken lights actually indicated the utilization of each CPU but programmers spent so much time entertaining themselves by writing code to do animations in the blinking light matrix that customers demanded ThinkingMachines do something about it. So they changed the lights to blink randomly.