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Black Screen of Death
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[prob.: related to the Floating Head of Death in a famous Far Side cartoon.]
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A failure mode of Microsloth Windows. On an attempt to launch a DOS box, a
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networked Windows system not uncommonly blanks the screen and locks up the
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PC so hard that it requires a cold boot to recover. This unhappy phenomenon
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2018-10-15 18:54:35 +00:00
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is known as The Black Screen of Death. See also Blue Screen of Death, which
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has become rather more common.
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