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• 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....
• Microsloth Windows: /mi:'kroh-sloth` win'dohz/ n. Hackerism for `Microsoft Windows'
  a windowing system for the IBM-PC which is so limited by bug-for-bug compatibility with {mess-dos} that it is agonizingly slow on anything less than a fast 486....
• uitable win n. See win.
• 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....
• Windoze: n. What happens when your GUI goes to sleep
• demo mode n. 1. [Sun] The state of being heads down in order to finish code in time for a demo, usually due yesterday.
  2. A mode in which video games sit by themselves running through a portion of the game, also known as `attract mode'....
• demo mode: [Sun] n. 1. The state of being {heads down} in order to finish code in time for a {demo}, usually due yesterday.
  2. A mode in which video games sit by themselves running through a portion of the game, also known as `attract mode'....
• big win n. 1. [common] Major success. 2. [MIT] Serendipity.
  Yes, those two physicists discovered high-temperature superconductivity in a batch of ceramic that had been prepared incorrectly according to their experimental schedule....
• big win: n. Serendipity. "Yes, those two physicists discovered high-temperature superconductivity in a batch of ceramic that had been prepared incorrectly according to their experimental schedule.
  Small mistake; big win!" See {win big}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...