dickless workstation n.
Extremely pejorative hackerism for
`diskless workstation', a class of botches including the Sun 3/50
and other machines designed exclusively to network with an
expensive central disk server. These combine all the disadvantages
of time-sharing with all the disadvantages of distributed personal
computers; typically, they cannot even boot themselves without
help (in the form of some kind of breath-of-life packet) from
the server.
Extremely pejorative hackerism for
`diskless workstation', a class of botches including the Sun 3/50
and other machines designed exclusively to network with an
expensive central disk server. These combine all the disadvantages
of time-sharing with all the disadvantages of distributed personal
computers; typically, they cannot even boot themselves without
help (in the form of some kind of breath-of-life packet) from
the server.
Related:
- dickless workstation: n. Extremely pejorative hackerism for
`diskless workstation',
a class of botches including the Sun 3/50 and other... - breath-of-life packet n.
[XEROX PARC] An Ethernet packet
that contains bootstrap (see boot) code,
periodically sent out from a working computer to... - breath-of-life packet: [XEROX PARC] n. An Ethernet packet that
contains bootstrap (see {boot}) code,
periodically sent out from a working computer to... - cycle server n.
A powerful machine that exists
primarily for running large compute-
disk-, or memory-intensive jobs (more formally called... - MIPS: /mips/ [abbreviation] n. 1. A measure of computing speed;
formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's... - monty /mon'tee/ n.
1. [US Geological Survey] A
program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to
perform extremely trivial tasks.
An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking... - Nightmare File System n.
Pejorative hackerism for Sun's
Network File System (NFS).
In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is... - Nightmare File System: n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network
File System (NFS).
In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is... - Unix brain damage n.
Something that has to be done to break
a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that
it will interoperate with Unix systems.
The hack may qualify as `Unix brain damage' if the...
