From: Patrick Jendraszak (indyibook_at_insightbb.com)
Date: Wed Mar 10 2004 - 03:48:09 PST
The blue screen of death is a rather terrifying display image containing
white text on a blue background that is generated by Windows operating
systems when the system has suddenly terminated with an error. The system is
locked up and must be restarted. The blue screen may include some
hexadecimal values from a core dump that may help determine what caused the
crash.
As defined in the online "Jargon Dictionary," "Blue Screen of Death n.
[common] This term is closely related to the older Black Screen of Death
but much more common (many non-hackers have picked it up). Due to the
extreme fragility and bugginess of Microsoft Windows misbehaving
applications can readily crash the OS (and the OS sometimes crashes itself
spontaneously). The Blue Screen of Death, sometimes decorated with hex
error codes, is what you get when this happens. (Commonly abbreviated
BSOD.)
"The following entry from the Salon Haiku Contest, seems to have predated
popular use of the term:
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death
No one hears your screams."
-- Patrick Jendraszak Indianapolis, IN MP 2000u On 3/10/04 5:38 AM, "Berthe M. Willumsen" <bmw_at_biobase.dk> vigorously typed: > What is "blue screen of death"?? > Windoze version of "frozen screen"? - although it sounds worse... > -- -- This is the NewtonTalk list - http://www.newtontalk.net/ for all inquiries Official Newton FAQ: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/ WikiWikiNewt for all kinds of articles: http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/
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