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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 [1619]BSOD.)

The following entry from the [1620]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.

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blue wire n.

[IBM] Patch wires (esp. 30 AWG gauge) added to circuit boards at the

factory to correct design or fabrication problems. Blue wire is not

necessarily blue, the term describes function rather than color. These

may be necessary if there hasn't been time to design and qualify

another board version. In Great Britain this can be `bodge wire',

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