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Microsloth Windows
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Microsloth Windows /mi:'kroh-sloth` win'dohz/ /n./
Hackerism for `Microsoft Windows', a windowing system for the
IBM-PC which is so limited by bug-for-bug compatibility with
mess-dos that it is agonizingly slow on anything less than a
fast 486. 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;
compare X, sun-stools.
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