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killer poke
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of
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invalid values (see poke ) into a memory-mapped control register; used esp.
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of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty box es without hardware memory
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management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and
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trash analog electronics in the monitor. See also HCF.
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