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Black Screen of Death: [prob.: related to the Floating Head of Death in a famous
Far Side cartoon.] A failure mode of
Microsloth Windows. On an attempt to launch a DOS
box, a networked Windows system not uncommonly blanks the screen and locks
up the PC so hard that it requires a cold boot to
recover. This unhappy phenomenon is known as The Black Screen of Death.
See also Blue Screen of Death, which has become
rather more common.
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