dink

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: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 youre 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 isnt sufficiently pejorative. See macdink.
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