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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>yoyo mode</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Y.html" title="Y"/><link rel="previous" href="Yow-.html" title="Yow!"/><link rel="next" href="Yu-Shiang-Whole-Fish.html" title="Yu-Shiang Whole Fish"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">yoyo mode</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Yow-.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">Y</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Yu-Shiang-Whole-Fish.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="yoyo-mode"/><dt xmlns="" id="yoyo-mode"><b>yoyo mode</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The state in which the system is said to be when it rapidly
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alternates several times between being up and being down. Interestingly
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(and perhaps not by coincidence), many hardware vendors give out free yoyos
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at Usenix exhibits.</p><p>Sun Microsystems gave out logoized yoyos at SIGPLAN '88. Tourists
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staying at one of Atlanta's most respectable hotels were subsequently
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treated to the sight of 200 of the country's top computer scientists
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testing yo-yo algorithms in the lobby.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Yow-.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Yu-Shiang-Whole-Fish.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Yow!<21></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>Yu-Shiang Whole Fish</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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