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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Microsloth Windows</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="microserf.html" title="microserf"/><link rel="next" href="Microsoft.html" title="Microsoft"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Microsloth Windows</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="microserf.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Microsoft.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Microsloth-Windows"/><dt xmlns="" id="Microsloth-Windows"><b>Microsloth Windows</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mi:<3A>kroh<6F>sloth` win<69>dohz/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (Variants combine {Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck} with {Windoze,
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WinDOS}. Hackerism(s) for ‘Microsoft Windows’. A thirty-two
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bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit
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operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was
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written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition. Also
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just called <span class="firstterm">Windoze</span>, with the
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implication that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do anything; the
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latter term is extremely common on Usenet. See
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<a href="../B/Black-Screen-of-Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Black Screen of Death</i></a> and <a href="../B/Blue-Screen-of-Death.html"><i class="glossterm">Blue Screen of Death</i></a>; compare
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<a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a>, <a href="../S/sun-stools.html"><i class="glossterm">sun-stools</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="microserf.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Microsoft.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">microserf<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>Microsoft</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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