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• killer poke: n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see {poke}) into a memory-mapped control registe
  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....
• lap on the side n. (also called a sidecar, or abbreviated `SOTS'.
  ) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers (e....
• lap on the side: n. (also called a {sidecar}, or abbreviated `SOTS'.
  ) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers (e....
• HCF /H-C-F/ n. Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire'
  any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360....
• PC-ism /P-C-izm/ n. A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like running DOS, e.
  g., by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory, or using hard timing loops....
• PC-ism: /P-C-izm/ n. A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.
  g., by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory, or using hard timing loops....
• blitter: /blit'r/ n. A special-purpose chip or hardware system built to perform {blit} operations, esp.
  used for fast implementation of bit-mapped graphics....
• peek n.,vt. (and poke) The commands in most microcomputer BASICs for directly accessing memory contents at an absolute addre
  often extended to mean the corresponding constructs in any HLL (peek reads memory, poke modifies it)....
• poke n.,vt. See peek.