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• infinite loop n. One that never terminates (that i
  he machine spins or buzzes forever and goes catato There is a standard joke that has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine...
• buzz: vi. 1. Of a program, to run with no indication of progress and perhaps without guarantee of ever finishing
  esp. said of programs thought to be executing tight loops of code....
• Helen Keller mode: n. 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.
  e., accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into {deep space}....
• buzz vi. 1. Of a program, to run with no indication of progress and perhaps without guarantee of ever finishing
  esp. said of programs thought to be executing tight loops of code....
• My 486 does an infinite loop in 4.86 seconds.
• wound around the axle: adj. In an infinite loop. Often used by older computer types.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• dup loop: /d[y]oop loop/ (also `dupe loop') [FidoNet] n.
  An infinite stream of duplicated, near-identical messages on a FidoNet {echo}, the only difference being unique or mangled identification information applied by a faulty or incorrectly configured system or network gateway, thus rendering {dup killer}s ineffective....
• fence: n. 1. A sequence of one or more distinguished ({out-of-band}) characters (or other data items)
  used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel')....
• BLI: Branch and Loop Infinite