/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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