dink

/dink/ 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.

[Jargon File]

(1994-10-31)