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
(sense 2), 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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