meaning of beranek

1. Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. BBN Technologies bomb 1. General synonym for crash except that it is not used as a noun. Especially used of software or OS failures. "Dont run Empire with less than 32K stack, itll bomb". 2. system> Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents of a Unix "panic" or Amiga guru, in which icons of little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has died. On the Macintosh, this may be accompanied by a decimal or occasionally hexadecimal number indicating what went wrong, similar to the Amiga guru meditation number. MS-DOS computers tend to lock up in this situation. 3. A piece of code embedded in a program that remains dormant until it is triggered. Logic bombs are triggered by an event whereas time bombs are triggered either after a set amount of time has elapsed, or when a specific date is reached. [Jargon File]

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