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• 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....
• Get a real computer!: imp. Typical hacker response to news that somebody is having trouble getting work done on a system that (a) is single-tasking
  (b) has no hard disk, or (c) has an address space smaller than 16 megabytes....
• oy: n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
  1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking style adequately....
• 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})....
• oy n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
  1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking style adequately....
• box: n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX box', `MS-DOS box', etc.
  ) "We preprocess the data on UNIX boxes before handing it up to the mainframe....
• Get a real computer! imp. Typical hacker response to news that somebody is having trouble getting work done on a system that (a) is single-tasking
  (b) has no hard disk, or (c) has an address space smaller than 16 megabytes....
• Big Red Switch: [IBM] n. The power switch on a computer, esp.
  he `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM {mainframe} or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red....
• Stone Age: n., adj. 1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca.
  1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical {dinosaur}s....