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Forked




(Unix; probably after "fucked") Terminally slow, or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an inadvertent fork bomb.

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foreign key
Foresight
for free
fork
fork bomb
Xemacs
for loop
FORM
FORMAC
FORMAL
formal argument


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