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Poke N.,vt. See Peek.
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poke n.,vt.
See peek.
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PROGRAMMERS peek before they poke
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)....
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)....
Computer operators peek before they poke.
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 boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor....
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....
gunch /guhnch/ vt. [TMRC] To push, prod, or poke at a device that has almost (but not quite) produced the desired result.
Implies a threat to mung....
gunch: /guhnch/ [TMRC] vt. To push, prod, or poke at a device that has almost (but not quite) produced the desired result.
Implies a threat to {mung}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
walk n.,vt. Traversal of a data structure, especially an array or linked-list data structure in core.
See also codewalker, silly walk, clobbe...