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Ired Iron N. [IBM] Hardware That Is Perfectly Functional But Far Enough Behind The State Of The Art To Have Been Superseded By New Produc
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tired iron n.
[IBM] Hardware that is perfectly functional but far
enough behind the state of the art to have been superseded by new
products, presumably with sufficient improvement in bang-per-buck
that the old stuff is starting to look a bit like a dinosaur.
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ired iron: [IBM] n. Hardware that is perfectly functional but far enough behind the state of the art to have been superseded by new produc
presumably with sufficient improvement in bang-per-buck that the old stuff is starting to look a bit like a {dinosaur}....
dinosaur n. 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power.
Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines....
dinosaur: n. 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power.
Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines....
Several old bugs have been superseded by new ones. -- GNUplot README file
bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
usty iron n. Syn. tired iron. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of water MIPS.
usty iron: n. Syn. {tired iron}. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of {water MIPS}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
etrocomputing /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-a
esp. if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more `serious' designs....