toy n.
A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking style
adequately. 2. `just a toy': A machine that yields insufficient
computrons for the speaker's preferred uses. This is not
condemnatory, as is bitty box; toys can at least be fun. It
is also strongly conditioned by one's expectations; Cray XMP users
sometimes consider the Cray-1 a `toy', and certainly all RISC
boxes and mainframes are toys by their standards. See also Get a real computer!
A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking style
adequately. 2. `just a toy': A machine that yields insufficient
computrons for the speaker's preferred uses. This is not
condemnatory, as is bitty box; toys can at least be fun. It
is also strongly conditioned by one's expectations; Cray XMP users
sometimes consider the Cray-1 a `toy', and certainly all RISC
boxes and mainframes are toys by their standards. See also Get a real computer!
Related:
- toy: n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking... - bitty box /bit'ee boks/ n.
1. A computer sufficiently
small,
primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute... - bitty box: /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small,
primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute... - 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... - toy program n.
1. One that can be readily comprehended;
hence, a trivial program (compare noddy). 2. One for... - toaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an
embedded microprocessor controller;
often used in comments that imply that a scheme... - toy problem n.
[AI] A deliberately oversimplified case of a
challenging problem used to investigate,
prototype, or test algorithms for a real problem... - toy problem: [AI] n. A deliberately oversimplified case of a
challenging problem used to investigate,
prototype, or test algorithms for a real problem... - toy program: n. 1. One that can be readily comprehended;
hence, a trivial program (compare {noddy}). 2....
From the same category:
- byte /bi:t/ n.
[techspeak] A unit of memory or data equal to
the amount used to represent one character;
on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits,... - playte /playt/
16 bits, by analogy with nybble and
byte.
Usage: rare and extremely silly. See also dynner ... - Matrix n.
[FidoNet] 1. What the Opus BBS software and
sysops call FidoNet.
2. Fanciful term for a cyberspace expected to emerge... - line starve
[MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer
the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to... - Cinderella Book [CMU] n.
"Introduction to Automata
Theory,
Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey...
