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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>crash</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="CrApTeX.html" title="CrApTeX"/><link rel="next" href="crash-and-burn.html" title="crash and burn"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">crash</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="CrApTeX.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="crash-and-burn.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="crash"/><dt xmlns="" id="crash"><b>crash</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> A sudden, usually drastic
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failure. Most often said of the <a href="../S/system.html"><i class="glossterm">system</i></a> (q.v., sense
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1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what
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happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses). “<span class="quote">Three
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<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>s lost their files in last night's disk
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crash.</span>” A disk crash that involves the read/write heads dropping
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onto the surface of the disks and scraping off the oxide may also be
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referred to as a <span class="firstterm">head crash</span>, whereas
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the term <span class="firstterm">system crash</span> usually, though
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not always, implies that the operating system or other software was at
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fault.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To fail suddenly.
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“<span class="quote">Has the system just crashed?</span>” “<span class="quote">Something crashed the
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OS!</span>” See <a href="../D/down.html"><i class="glossterm">down</i></a>. Also used transitively to
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indicate the cause of the crash (usually a person or a program, or both).
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“<span class="quote">Those idiots playing <a href="../S/SPACEWAR.html"><i class="glossterm">SPACEWAR</i></a> crashed the
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system.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> Sometimes said of people
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hitting the sack after a long <a href="../H/hacking-run.html"><i class="glossterm">hacking run</i></a>; see
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<a href="../G/gronk-out.html"><i class="glossterm">gronk out</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="CrApTeX.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="crash-and-burn.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">CrApTeX </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> crash and burn</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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