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Specialty Expressions: BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

ExpressionsDomainDefinition
Blue Screen of DeathComputingBlue Screen of Death (BSOD) The infamous white-on-blue text screen which appears when Microsoft Windows crashes. BSOD is mostly seen on the 16-bit systems such as Windows 3.1, but also on Windows 95 and apparently even under Windows NT 4. It is most likely to be caused by a GPF, although Windows 95 can do it if you've removed a required CD-ROM from the drive. It is often impossible to recover cleanly from a BSOD. The acronym BSOD is sometimes used as a verb, e.g. "Windoze just keeps BSODing on me today". (1998-09-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing..
Blue Screen of DeathComputingBlue Screen of Death n. [common] This term is closely related to the older Black Screen of Death but much more common (many non-hackers have picked it up). Due to the extreme fragility and bugginess of Microsoft Windows, misbehaving applications can readily crash the OS (and the OS sometimes crashes itself spontaneously). The Blue Screen of Death, sometimes decorated with hex error codes, is what you get when this happens. (Commonly abbreviated BSOD.) The following entry from the Salon Haiku Contest (http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html), seems to have predated popular use of the term: Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death No one hears your screams. Source: Jargon File..
Blue Screen of DeathSlangNoun. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: A fatal VXD error has occurred. Context: Usually said in disgust at having encountered a VXD error. Social Source: Northwest American computer hacker. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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