May 15, 2003

dink

/dink/ adj.

Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with — sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32-bit architectures about 16-bit machines. GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine. Probably derived from mainstream ‘dinky’, which isn't sufficiently pejorative. See macdink.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:50 AM

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