blue screen of death

== English == === Etymology === First use appears c. 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. See cite below. === Pronunciation === === Noun === blue screen of death (plural blue screens of death) (computing, informal) An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down. Synonyms: blue screen, BSOD, stop error ==== Hyponyms ==== screen of death ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== === Further reading === blue screen of death on Wikipedia.Wikipedia