Computing Dictionary
Get a real computer! definition
jargon A typical
hacker response to news that somebody is having trouble getting work done on a
toy system or
bitty box.
The threshold for "real computer" rises with time. As of mid-1993 it meant
multi-tasking, with a
hard disk, and an
address space bigger than 16
megabytes. At this time, according to
GLS, computers with character-only displays were verging on "unreal". In 2001, a real computer has a one
gigahertz processor, 128 MB of
RAM, 20 GB of hard disk, and runs
Linux.
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Jargon File]
(2001-06-22)
