1.
software General synonym for
crash except that it is
not used as a noun. Especially used of software or
OSfailures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll
bomb".
little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed,
indicating that the system has died. On the
Macintosh, this
may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally
hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to
3. software A piece of code embedded in a program that
remains dormant until it is triggered. Logic bombs are
triggered by an event whereas time bombs are triggered either
after a set amount of time has elapsed, or when a specific
date is reached.
(1996-12-08)