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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Blue Screen of Death</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="blue-goo.html" title="blue goo"/><link rel="next" href="blue-wire.html" title="blue wire"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Blue Screen of Death</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blue-goo.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="blue-wire.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Blue-Screen-of-Death"/><dt xmlns="" id="Blue-Screen-of-Death"><b>Blue Screen of Death</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] This term is closely related to the older
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<a href="Black-Screen-of-Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Black Screen of Death</i></a> but much more common (many non-hackers have
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picked it up). Due to the extreme fragility and bugginess of Microsoft
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Windows, misbehaving applications can readily crash the OS (and the OS
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sometimes crashes itself spontaneously). The Blue Screen of Death,
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sometimes decorated with hex error codes, is what you get when this
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happens. (Commonly abbreviated <a href="BSOD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSOD</i></a>.) The
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following entry from the <a href="http://archive.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal.html" target="_top"> Salon
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Haiku Contest</a>, seems to have predated popular use of the
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term:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
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<EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>Windows<EFBFBD>NT<EFBFBD>crashed.<br/>
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<EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>I<EFBFBD>am<EFBFBD>the<EFBFBD>Blue<EFBFBD>Screen<EFBFBD>of<EFBFBD>Death<br/>
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<EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>No<EFBFBD>one<EFBFBD>hears<EFBFBD>your<EFBFBD>screams.<br/>
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</p></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="blue-goo.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="blue-wire.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">blue goo<6F></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>blue wire</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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