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blue screen of death

noun

Etymology

First use appears c. 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. See cite below.

Definitions

  1. An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after…

    An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down.

    • The only remaining problem is--NT still locks up the machine at exactly the same point. The only difference is that I don't get the blue screen of death--NT just freezes.
    • A Blue Screen of Death is like an encrypted message from your computer telling you there's a problem. We're going to help you make sense of the gobbledygook so you can fix whatever's ailing your PC!

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA