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• die v. Syn. crash. Unlike crash, which is used primarily of hardware, this verb is used of both hardware and software.
  See also go flatline, casters-up mode....
• Helen Keller mode: n. 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.
  e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into {deep space}....
• dead: adj. 1. Non-functional; {down}; {crash}ed. Especially used of hardware.
  2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing continued development and support....
• moke: vi. 1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly.
  The new version smoked, just like the last one....
• casters-up mode: [IBM, prob. fr. slang belly up] n.
  Yet another synonym for `broken' or `down'. Usually connotes a major failure....
• hung: [from `hung up'] adj. Equivalent to {wedged}, but more common at UNIX/C sites.
  Not generally used of people. Syn. with {locked up}, {wedged}...
• Helen Keller mode n. 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.
  e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into deep space....
• crash: 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the {system} (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happened when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• blow out: [prob. from mining and tunneling jargon] vi.
  Of software, to fail spectacularly; almost as serious as {crash and burn}....