Black Screen of Death

   [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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {Blue Screen of Death}{Microsloth Windows}]