Microsloth Windows

abuse, operating system /mi:'kroh-sloth" win"dohz/ (Or

"Windoze", /win'dohz/) A derogatory term for MicrosoftWindows 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)