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yoyo mode
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n. The state in which the system is said to be when it rapidly alternates
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several times between being up and being down. Interestingly (and perhaps
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not by coincidence), many hardware vendors give out free yoyos at Usenix
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exhibits. Sun Microsystems gave out logoized yoyos at SIGPLAN '88. Tourists
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staying at one of Atlanta's most respectable hotels were subsequently
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treated to the sight of 200 of the country's top computer scientists testing
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yo-yo algorithms in the lobby.
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