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