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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