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microsloth windows
(foldoc) | Microsloth Windows
Windoze
/mi:'kroh-sloth" win"dohz/ (Or
"Windoze", /win'dohz/) A derogatory term for {Microsoft
Windows} which is so limited by bug-for-bug compatibility with
mess-dos that it is agonisingly slow on anything less than a
fast 486. Also called just "Windoze", with the implication
that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do anything; the
latter term is extremely common on Usenet.
Compare X, sun-stools.
[Jargon File]
(1996-10-08)
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microsloth windows
(jargon) | 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. Also just called
Windoze, with the implication that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do
anything; the latter term is extremely common on Usenet. See {Black Screen
of Death} and Blue Screen of Death; compare X, sun-stools.
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microsloth windows
(foldoc) | Microsloth Windows
Windoze
/mi:'kroh-sloth" win"dohz/ (Or
"Windoze", /win'dohz/) A derogatory term for {Microsoft
Windows} which is so limited by bug-for-bug compatibility with
mess-dos that it is agonisingly slow on anything less than a
fast 486. Also called just "Windoze", with the implication
that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do anything; the
latter term is extremely common on Usenet.
Compare X, sun-stools.
[Jargon File]
(1996-10-08)
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microsloth windows
(jargon) | 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. Also just called
Windoze, with the implication that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do
anything; the latter term is extremely common on Usenet. See {Black Screen
of Death} and Blue Screen of Death; compare X, sun-stools.
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