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• locked up: adj. Syn. for {hung}, {wedged}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• hung adj. [from `hung up'; common] Equivalent to wedged, but more common at Unix/C sites.
  Not generally used of people. Syn. with locked up, wedged...
• hung: [from `hung up'] adj. Equivalent to {wedged}, but more common at UNIX/C sites.
  Not generally used of people. Syn. with {locked up}, {wedged}...
• wedged adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• wedged: adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• fragile adj. Syn brittle.
• catatonic adj. Describes a condition of suspended animation in which something is so wedged or hung that it makes no response.
  If you are typing on a terminal and suddenly the computer doesn't even echo the letters back to the screen as you type, let alone do what you're asking it to do, then the computer is suffering from catatonia (possibly because it has crashed)....
• catatonic: adj. Describes a condition of suspended animation in which something is so {wedged} or {hung} that it makes no response.
  If you are typing on a terminal and suddenly the computer doesn't even echo the letters back to the screen as you type, let alone do what you're asking it to do, then the computer is suffering from catatonia (possibly because it has crashed)....
• dodgy adj. Syn. with flaky. Preferred outside the U.S.