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.
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.
Related:
- 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.... - bitty box /bit'ee boks/ n.
1. A computer sufficiently
small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute
claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC.... - bitty box: /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small,
primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia
at the thought of developing software on or for it.
Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC.... - oy n.
A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking style adequately.... - oy: n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking style adequately.... - oaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an
embedded microprocessor controlle
often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller}).... - computron /kom'pyoo-tron`/
n. 1. [common] A notional
unit of computing power combining instruction speed and storage
capacity
dimensioned roughly in instructions-per-second times megabytes-of-main-store times megabytes-of-mass-storage.... - Real computer scientists work from 5 pm to 9 am because that's the only
time they can get the 8 megabytes of main memory they need to edit
specs.
(Real work starts around 2 am when enough MIPS are free for their dynamic systems.... - moby /moh'bee/
[MIT: seems to have been in use among
model railroad fans years ago.
Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....
