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Blue Screen of Death
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [common] This term is closely related to the older Black Screen of Death
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but much more common (many non-hackers have picked it up). Due to the
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extreme fragility and bugginess of Microsoft Windows, misbehaving
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applications can readily crash the OS (and the OS sometimes crashes itself
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spontaneously). The Blue Screen of Death, sometimes decorated with hex error
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codes, is what you get when this happens. (Commonly abbreviated BSOD. ) The
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following entry from the Salon Haiku Contest , seems to have predated
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popular use of the term: WindowsNTcrashed. IamtheBlueScreenofDeath
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Noonehearsyourscreams.
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