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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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