killer poke

2 definitions found

killer poke - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  killer poke
  
     A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via
     insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a
     memory-mapped control register; used especially of various
     fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware
     memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET)
     that can overload analog electronics in the monitor.
  
     See also HCF.
  
     (1994-11-04)
  

killer poke - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.