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 box}es
   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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {HCF}{peek}]