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Frotzed: /frotst/ Adj. {down} Because Of Hardware Problems.
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:frotzed: /frotst/ adj. {down} because of hardware problems. Compare
{fried}. A machine that is merely frotzed may be fixable
without replacing parts, but a fried machine is more seriously
damaged.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
frotzed /frotst/ adj. down because of hardware problems.
Compare fried. A machine that is merely frotzed may be fixable without replacing parts, but a fried machine is more seriously damaged....
fried: adj. 1. Non-working due to hardware failure
burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see {glitch}), {drop-outs}, a short, or some other electrical event....
fried adj. 1. [common] Non-working due to hardware failure
burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see glitch), drop-outs, a short, or some other electrical event....
fry: 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures.
More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans....
machinable: adj. Machine-readable. Having the {softcopy} nature. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
oach: [Bell Labs] vt. To destroy, esp. of a data structure.
Hardware gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software gets roached. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
friode: /fri:'ohd/ [TMRC] n. A reversible (that is, fused or blown) diode.
Compare {fried}; see also {SED}, {LER}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
oast: 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp.
one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ....
fepped out: /fept owt/ adj. The Symbolics 3600 LISP Machine has a Front-End Processor called a `FEP' (compare sense 2 of {box}).
When the main processor gets {wedged}, the FEP takes control of the keyboard and screen....