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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). A disk that
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involves the read/write heads dropping onto the surface of the disks and
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scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as a head, whereas the
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term system usually, though not always, implies that the operating system
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or other software was at fault. 2. v. To fail suddenly. Has the system
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just crashed? Something crashed the OS! See down. Also used transitively
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to indicate the cause of the crash (usually a person or a program, or both).
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Those idiots playing SPACEWAR crashed the system. 3. vi. Sometimes said
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of people hitting the sack after a long hacking run; see gronk out.
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