dictionary help| killer poke | computing dictionary |
A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control register; used especially of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload analog electronics in the monitor.
See also: HCF.
(01 Mar 1994)
killer cells, natural, killer micro, killer plasmid < Prev | Next > killer T-cell, killer yeast, kill file
Bookmark with:      | word visualiser | Go and visit our forums  |
