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killer poke
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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 register; 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. See also HCF.
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