dink
/dink/ Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature; a machine too small to
be worth bothering with - sometimes the system you're currently forced to work
on. First heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in
reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32 bit architectures about
16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine." Probably
derived from mainstream "dinky", which isn't sufficiently pejorative.
See macdink.
[Jargon File]
(1994-10-31)
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