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bomb 1. v. General synonym for
crash (sense 1) except that it is not used as a
noun; esp. used of software or OS failures. “Don't run Empire with
less than 32K stack, it'll bomb.” 2. n.,v. Atari ST and Macintosh
equivalents of a Unix panic or Amiga
guru meditation, in which icons of little
black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the
system has died. On the Mac, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or
occasionally hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to the
Amiga guru meditation number.
MS-DOS machines tend to get
locked up in this situation.
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