marbles
<jargon> (From the mainstream "lost his marbles") The minimum needed to
build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions. After a bad
system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up
on its own, or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from backups, or if you need to
rebuild from scratch. "This compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to compile
hello, world."
[Jargon File]
(1998-05-21)
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