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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bomb</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="boink.html" title="boink"/><link rel="next" href="bondage-and-discipline-language.html" title="bondage-and-discipline language"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bomb</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="boink.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bondage-and-discipline-language.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bomb"/><dt xmlns="" id="bomb"><b>bomb</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">v.</span> General synonym for
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<a href="../C/crash.html"><i class="glossterm">crash</i></a> (sense 1) except that it is not used as a
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noun; esp. used of software or OS failures. “<span class="quote">Don't run Empire with
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less than 32K stack, it'll bomb.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.,v.</span> Atari ST and Macintosh
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equivalents of a Unix <span class="firstterm">panic</span> or Amiga
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<a href="../G/guru-meditation.html"><i class="glossterm">guru meditation</i></a>, in which icons of little
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black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the
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system has died. On the Mac, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or
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occasionally hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to the
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Amiga <a href="../G/guru-meditation.html"><i class="glossterm">guru meditation</i></a> number.
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<a href="../M/MS-DOS.html"><i class="glossterm">MS-DOS</i></a> machines tend to get
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<a href="../L/locked-up.html"><i class="glossterm">locked up</i></a> in this situation.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="boink.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bondage-and-discipline-language.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">boink </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bondage-and-discipline language</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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