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programmer's switch

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Definition of programmer's switch words

  • noun Technical meaning of programmer's switch (hardware)   A button on the front of some Apple Macintosh computers which, when pressed, causes a command line prompt to appear. This gives access to the built-in mini-debugger, which has commands to dump memory, return to the application that was broken out, and others. A more sophisticated debugger must be installed in order to inspect breakpoints, etc. 1

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preposition
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determiner
exclamation

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