blow an EPROM
/bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for
use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for
the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable
Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny
electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive
to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-29)
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