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 href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=deep space">deep space. (Unfair to the real Helen Keller, whose success at learning speech was triumphant.) See also href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=go flatline">go flatline, href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=catatonic">catatonic. 2. On href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=IBM PCs">IBM PCs under href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=MS-DOS">MS-DOS, refers to a specific failure mode in which a screen saver has kicked in over an href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=ill-behaved">ill-behaved application which bypasses the very interrupts the screen saver watches for activity. Your choices are to try to get from the program' s current state through a successful save-and-exit without being able to see what you' re doing, or to href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=re-boot">re-boot the machine. This isn' t (strictly speaking) a crash. [href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File]

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