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. 2. [Pejorative] More generally, the opposite of
`real computer' (see Get a real computer!). See also
mess-dos, toaster, and toy.
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. 2. [Pejorative] More generally, the opposite of
`real computer' (see Get a real computer!). See also
mess-dos, toaster, and toy.
Related:
- bitty box /bit'ee boks/ n.
1. A computer sufficiently
small,
primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute... - 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... - toaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an
embedded microprocessor controller;
often used in comments that imply that a scheme... - toy n.
A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking... - toy: n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking... - 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... - toaster n.
1. The archetypal really stupid application
for an embedded microprocessor controller;
often used in comments that imply that a scheme... - box n.
1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo
box' where foo is some functional qualifier,
like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `Unix... - box: n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box'
where foo is some functional qualifier,
like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX...
