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bomb

To fail. The term bomb usually refers to a program hanging or ending prematurely. Note that bombing is usually less serious than crashing, because bombing refers to a single program, whereas crashing refers to the entire system. The two terms, however, are not always used consistently.

The Apple Macintosh computer actually has a bomb message that sometimes appears just before the system crashes.



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