Blue Screen of Death (was: Computer haiku)

[Bookrat]

At 11:54 AM -0800 2/13/02, Baker, John wrote:
>        You can search on Google, or this link might work:
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=3302313a6a346077&seekm=299ls5%24nob
>%40bsdns.brooks.af.mil&frame=off

A Google Groups search for the initialism BSOD turns up a reference to the
"Black Screen O' Death" from 7 September 1993, in conjunction with Windows
3.1 and Novell:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=22115.9309071057%40csu.napier.ac.uk

A follow-up search for "black screen of death" turns up this post from 15
April 1993:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=C5JEDy.1yt%40blaze.cs.jhu.edu

This post in turn references an article by [Robert X.] Cringely in
InfoWorld on 12 April 1993.  It might be worth checking out.

In the course of performing these searches, I have run across references to
the initialism BSD, meaning the same thing as BSOD.  But the mind reels at
the thought of trying to do a Google search on the term BSD.

Ken Miller
Assistant Drone
Samuel Johnson Institute for the Study of Harmless Drudgery