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crash
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system
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(q.v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described
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what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses). Three lusers lost
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their files in last night's disk . A disk that involves the read/write
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heads dropping onto the surface of the disks and scraping off the oxide may
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also be referred to as a head , whereas the term system usually, though
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not always, implies that the operating system or other software was at
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fault. 2. v. To fail suddenly. Has the system just ed? Something ed the OS!
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See down. Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the (usually a
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person or a program, or both). Those idiots playing SPACEWAR ed the system.
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3. vi. Sometimes said of people hitting the sack after a long hacking run ;
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see gronk out.
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