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dink
Posted By: Vid BoiDate: 1/16/02 9:44 a.m.

From the enormous hacker dictionary:

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.

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/dink.html

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