< humour > (BSOD) The infamous white-on-blue text screen which appears when Microsoft Windows crashes. BSOD is mostly seen on the 16-bit systems such as Windows 3.1 , but also on Windows 95 and apparently even under Windows NT 4 . It is most likely to be caused by a GPF , although Windows 95 can do it if you've removed a required CD-ROM from the drive. It is often impossible to recover cleanly from a BSOD.
The acronym BSOD is sometimes used as a verb, e.g. " Windoze just keeps BSODing on me today".
(1998-09-08)