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• oaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controlle
  often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller})....
• web toaster n. A small specialized computer, shipped with no monitor or keyboard or any other external peripheral
  pre-configured to be controlled through an Ethernet port and function as a WWW server....
• elevator controller n. An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like toaster (which superseded it).
  During one period (1983-84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization committee) this was the canonical example of a really stupid, memory-limited computation environment....
• elevator controller: n. An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like {toaster} (which superseded it).
  During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization committee) this was the canonical example of a really stupid, memory-limited computation environment....
• video toaster n. Historically, an Amiga running LightWave and fitted out with a particular line of special video-display hardware from NewTek - long a popular platform at special-effects and video production houses.
  More generally, any computer system designed specifically for video production and manipulation....
• 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....
• 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....
• beige toaster n. A Macintosh. See toaster; compare Macintrash, maggotbox.
• RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp. [Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
  1. Used by gurus to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying....