yoyo mode

yoyo mode

(jargon)The state in which a computer is said to be when itrapidly alternates several times between being up and beingdown. Interestingly (and perhaps not by coincidence), manyhardware vendors give out free yoyos at Usenix exhibits.

Sun Microsystems gave out logoised yoyos at SIGPLAN '88.Tourists staying at one of Atlanta's most respectable hotelswere subsequently treated to the sight of 200 of the country'stop computer scientists testing yo-yo algorithms in thelobby.