Programmer's Switch
Programmer's Switch
(hardware)A button on the front of some Apple Macintosh
computers which, when pressed, causes a command line prompt to
appear. This gives access to the built-in mini-debugger,
which has commands to dump memory, return to the application
that was broken out, and others. A more sophisticated
debugger must be installed in order to inspect breakpoints,
etc.
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