Black Screen of Death: n. [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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