Bomb
1. <software> General synonym for
crash except that it is not used as a noun.
Especially used of software or
OS failures.
"Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb".
2. <operating system> Atari ST and
Macintosh equivalents of a
Unix "
panic" or
Amiga guru, in which
icons of 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 the
Amiga guru meditation number.
MS-DOS computers tend to lock up in this situation.
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.
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