: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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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1. A computer sufficiently
small,
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(a) is single-tasking,
(b) has no hard disk, or (c) has an address space... - toy: n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking... - toaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an
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where foo is some functional qualifier,
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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... - Big Red Switch: [IBM] n. The power switch on a computer,
esp. the `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM {mainframe}... - Stone Age: n., adj. 1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined period
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