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-	'''''Snow Crash''''' is [[Neal Stephenson]]'s third [[novel]], published in June [[1992]]. It follows in the footsteps of [[cyberpunk]] novels by such authors as [[William Gibson]] and [[Rudy Rucker]], but differs from its predecessors in that it includes much [[satire]] and [[black comedy|black humor]]. Like many of Stephenson's other novels, its chaotic structure contains many references to history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, geography and philosophy.	+
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-	Stephenson explained the title of the novel in his 1999 essay ''[[In the Beginning...was the Command Line]]'' as his term for a particular software [[failure mode]] on the early [[Apple Macintosh]] computer. About the Macintosh, Stephenson wrote that "when the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set — a 'snow crash'". A similar behavior can be observed on modern computers after a [[Graphics processing unit|GPU]] crash.	+
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