Blue Screen of Death (was: Computer haiku)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Drew Danielson wrote:

> for this term?  Eric Randolph's Jargon File also cites the 1998 Salon
> article as a precedent to popular usage of the phrase, but the second
> kid 1997 cites pan out...
>
> Can anyone else go any earlier than these citations??

Nexis has it in an article in _Microsoft Systems Journal_, Jan. 1994.

Fred Shapiro


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