Get A Real Computer! Imp. Typical Hacker Response To News That Somebody Is Having Trouble Getting Work Done On A System That (a) Is Single-tasking

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Get a real computer! imp.

Typical hacker response to news
that somebody is having trouble getting work done on a system that
(a) is single-tasking, (b) has no hard disk, or (c) has an address
space smaller than 16 megabytes. This is as of early 1996; note
that the threshold for `real computer' rises with time. See
bitty box and toy.

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