Microsloth Windows

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}.
    

Microsloth Windows
Windoze

   <abuse, operating system> /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)