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bomb
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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1. v. General synonym for crash (sense 1) except that it is not used as a
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noun; esp. used of software or OS failures. Don't run Empire with less than
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32K stack, it'll. 2. n.,v. Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents of a Unix
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panic or Amiga guru meditation , in which icons of little black-powder s or
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mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has died. On the
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Mac, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally hexadecimal)
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number indicating what went wrong, similar to the Amiga guru meditation
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number. MS-DOS machines tend to get locked up in this situation.
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