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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>go flatline</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="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="GNUMACS.html" title="GNUMACS"/><link rel="next" href="go-gold.html" title="go gold"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">go flatline</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GNUMACS.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="go-gold.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="go-flatline"/><dt xmlns="" id="go-flatline"><b>go flatline</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon
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brain-death] (also adjectival <span class="firstterm">flatlined</span>). </p></dd><dd><p> 1. To <a href="../D/die.html"><i class="glossterm">die</i></a>, terminate, or fail, esp.
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irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human
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death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes
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about. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing
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controlled shutdown. “<span class="quote">You can suffer file damage if you shut down
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Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees
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