Microsloth Windows

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Microsloth Windows

/mi:´kroh·sloth` win´dohz/ Usage: n. See Also: Black Screen of Death, Blue Screen of Death, X, sun-stools

Microsloth Windows: /mi:´kroh·sloth` win´dohz/ n.

(Variants combine Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck with Windoze, WinDOS. Hackerism(s) for `Microsoft Windows'. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition. Also just called Windoze, with the implication that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do anything; the latter term is extremely common on Usenet. See Black Screen of Death and Blue Screen of Death; compare X, sun-stools.

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